Why Don't More Non-North-AmericanPapersGet Acceptedto CHI? Ellen A. Isaacs and John C. Tang The observation has been made over the years that CHI appears to accept papers from North American authors at a higher rate than it accepts papers from authors from other parts of the world. Some have suggested that the difference is primarily due to the fact that non-native English speakers tend to have more trouble writing in English. Others have claimed that North Americans value a style of research that differs from research conducted in other part of the world. So far, this type of discussion has continued with very little data to test these theories. In past years, some basic statistics have been collected and they have provided preliminary indications that North American papers are accepted at a higher rate than non-North American papers. However, nothing had been done so far to understand what causes the difference in acceptance rates. We decided to not only test the existence of the numerical bias, but also to do a content analysis of reasons for the higher rejection rate of non-North American papers. To do this, we collected the reviews of papers rejected from the CHI '95
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Why don't more non-North-American papers get accepted to CHI?
Isaacs, Ellen A.; Tang, John C.
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, Volume 28 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jan 1, 1996
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