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Towards A Sustainable Future for Peer Review in Software Engineering
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Towards A Sustainable Future for Peer Review in Software Engineering

Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee, Ramtin Ehsani and Polina Iaremchuk
Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering: Future of Software Engineering, pp 61-65
12 Apr 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3793657.3793883
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Social and professional topics Software and its engineering
Peer review is the main mechanism by which the software engineering community assesses the quality of scientific results. However, the rapid growth of paper submissions in software engineering venues has outpaced the availability of qualified reviewers, creating a growing imbalance that risks constraining and negatively impacting the long-term growth of the Software Engineering (SE) research community. Our vision of the Future of the SE research landscape involves a more scalable, inclusive, and resilient peer review process that incorporates additional mechanisms for: 1) attracting and training newcomers to serve as high-quality reviewers, 2) incentivizing more community members to serve as peer reviewers, and 3) cautiously integrating AI tools to support a high-quality review process.

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