Bias, peer review, and publishing

Giangiacomo Bravo, Francisco Grimaldo, Emilia López-Iñesta, Bahar Mehmani, Flaminio Squazzoni. The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals. Nature Communications. 2019;10(1):322. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08250-2

Gemma Conroy. Q&A Linda Beaumont: Journals should take action against toxic peer reviews. Nature Index. 2019. https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news-blog/linda-beaumont-research-journals-should-take-action-against-toxic-peer-reviews.

Samir Haffar, Fateh Bazerbachi, M. Hassan Murad. Peer Review Bias: A Critical Review. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2019;94(4):670-676. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2018.09.004

Tony Ross-Hellauer, Edit Görögh. Guidelines for open peer review implementation. Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2019;4:4. doi:10.1186/s41073-019-0063-9

Kaitlyn Hair, Malcolm R. Macleod, Emily S. Sena, et al. A randomised controlled trial of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines (IICARus). Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2019;4:12. doi:10.1186/s41073-019-0069-3

Talia H. Swartz, Ann-Gel S. Palermo, Sandra K. Masur, Judith A. Aberg. The Science and Value of Diversity: Closing the Gaps in Our Understanding of Inclusion and Diversity. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2019;220(S2):S33-S41. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiz174

Nyssa J. Silbiger, Amber D. Stubler. Unprofessional peer reviews disproportionately harm underrepresented groups in STEM. PeerJ. 2019;7:e8247. doi:10.7717/peerj.8247

Travis A. Hoppe, Aviva Litovitz, Kristine A. Willis, et al. Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists. Science Advances. 2019;5(10):aww7238. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw7238

Susan Guthrie, Daniela Rodriguez Rincon, Gordon McInroy, Becky Ioppolo, Salil Gunashekar. Measuring bias, burden and conservatism in research funding processes. F1000Research. 2019;8:851. doi:10.12688/f1000research.19156.1

Elizabeth Walsh, Maeve Rooney, Louis Appleby, Greg Wilkinson. Open peer review: A randomised controlled trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2018;176(1):47-51. doi:10.1192/bjp.176.1.47