Review

Following you find information about the review process in order to increase transparency in the selection process.

We have received 381 abstracts submitted by colleagues from more than 45 countries.

All submissions to the 2010 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change have been subject to a double-blind review process with at least four anonymous peer reviewers per abstract. We thus ensure a high quality of the presentations and a coherent thematic structure of the conference.

1. After closing the call for papers (6 April 2010) all submitted abstracts have been reviewed by the international review panel (see list below).
2. All abstracts were evaluated independently and anonymously by at least four reviewers, allotted on a random basis.
3. Review criteria were fit with the conference theme, novelty of research and the scientific quality of the proposal.
4. Abstracts were ranked on a scale from 10 points (excellent/highly appropriate for the conference) to 1 point (not appropriate/rejection).
5. For every abstract an average grade was then calculated and all abstracts were ranked accordingly.

Given the restrictions of conference space and presentation time, we accepted the 220 papers which fitted best the conference theme.

The 53 members of the international review panel: