Bias, peer review, and publishing

Noemi Felisi, Riccardo Vecchio, Anna Odone. When peer review drags on: the harm to early career researchers. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. 2026;11. doi:10.3389/frma.2026.1740381

Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature. https://www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/lack-of-reviewers-threatens-robustness-of-neuroscience-literature/. Published 2026.

B. H. Lim, C. D’Ippoliti, M. Dominik, et al. Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion. Nature. 2025:1-10. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08422-9

Pierre Azoulay, Wesley H. Greenblatt. Does Peer Review Penalize Scientific Risk Taking? Evidence from NIH Grant Renewals.; 2025. doi:10.3386/w33495

David Moher, Anna Catharina Vieira Armond. Publisher and journal reciprocity for peer review: Not so much. Accountability in Research. 2025;32(5):832-837. doi:10.1080/08989621.2025.2450451

NIH Center for Scientific Review. CSR Initiatives to Address Bias in Peer Review. https://public.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Address-Bias-in-Peer-Review. Published 2025.

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers. Nature. 2025;642(8068):542-542. doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01880-9

Yueran Duan, Shahan Ali Memon, Bedoor AlShebli, Qing Guan, Petter Holme, Talal Rahwan. Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2025;122(4):e2402053122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2402053122

Ryan Hill, Yian Yin, Carolyn Stein, Xizhao Wang, Dashun Wang, Benjamin F. Jones. The pivot penalty in research. Nature. 2025;642(8069):999-1006. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09048-1

Helen Peterson, Liisa Husu. Peer review across borders: benefits and challenges of international review panels in research funding organizations. Research Evaluation. 2025;34:rvaf030. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvaf030