Bias, peer review, and publishing

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

Stephen Gallo, Lisa Thompson, Karen Schmaling, Scott Glisson. Risk evaluation in peer review of grant applications. Environment Systems and Decisions. 2018;38:216-229. doi:10.1007/s10669-018-9677-6

Jeffrey Beck, Kathryn Funk, Melissa Harrison, et al. Publishing peer review materials. F1000Research. 2018;7:1655. doi:10.12688/f1000research.16460.1

Delphine R. Boulbes, Tracy Costello, Keith Baggerly, et al. A survey on data reproducibility and the effect of publication process on the ethical reporting of laboratory research. Clinical Cancer Research. 2018;24(14):3447-3455. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-0227

Rajat Bhattacharya, Lee M. Ellis. It is Time to Re-evaluate the Peer Review Process for Preclinical Research. BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2018;40(1):10.1002/bies.201700185. doi:10.1002/bies.201700185

Stephen Heard, Timothée Poisot. Early career researchers make great peer reviewers. How can we get more of them? https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/early-career-researchers-make-great-peer-reviewers-how-can-we-get-more-of-them/. Published 2017.

Andrew Tomkins, Min Zhang, William D. Heavlin. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017;114(48):12708-12713. doi:10.1073/pnas.1707323114