Bias, peer review, and publishing

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

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

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

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

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.

Nicholas J. DeVito, Ben Goldacre. Publication bias. https://catalogofbias.org/biases/publication-bias/. Published 2019.

Erin C McKiernan, Lesley A Schimanski, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Lisa Matthias, Meredith T Niles, Juan P Alperin. Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Emma Pewsey, Peter Rodgers, Björn Brembs, eds. eLife. 2019;8:e47338. doi:10.7554/eLife.47338

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

Robyn Tamblyn, Nadyne Girard, Christina J. Qian, James Hanley. Assessment of potential bias in research grant peer review in Canada. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2018;190(16):E489-E499. doi:10.1503/cmaj.170901

Susan Guthrie, Ioana Ghiga, Steven Wooding. What do we know about grant peer review in the health sciences? F1000Research. 2018;6:1335. doi:10.12688/f1000research.11917.2