Bias, peer review, and publishing

John Coveney, Danielle L. Herbert, Kathy Hill, Karen E. Mow, Nicholas Graves, Adrian Barnett. ‘Are you siding with a personality or the grant proposal?’: observations on how peer review panels function. Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2017;2(1):19. doi:10.1186/s41073-017-0043-x

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.

Ferric C Fang, Anthony Bowen, Arturo Casadevall. NIH peer review percentile scores are poorly predictive of grant productivity. eLife. 2016;5:e13323. doi:10.7554/eLife.13323

J K Tijdink, K Schipper, L M Bouter, P Maclaine Pont, J de Jonge, Y M Smulders. How do scientists perceive the current publication culture? A qualitative focus group interview study among Dutch biomedical researchers. BMJ Open. 2016;6(2):e008681. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008681

Pavel V. Ovseiko, Trisha Greenhalgh, Paula Adam, et al. A global call for action to include gender in research impact assessment. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2016;14(1):50. doi:10.1186/s12961-016-0126-z

Paul E. Smaldino, Richard McElreath. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science. 2016;3(9):160384. doi:10.1098/rsos.160384

Rachel Bruce, Anthony Chauvin, Ludovic Trinquart, Philippe Ravaud, Isabelle Boutron. Impact of interventions to improve the quality of peer review of biomedical journals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medicine. 2016;14:85. doi:10.1186/s12916-016-0631-5

Jue Wang, Philip Shapira. Is There a Relationship between Research Sponsorship and Publication Impact? An Analysis of Funding Acknowledgments in Nanotechnology Papers. PLoS ONE. 2015;10(2):e0117727. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117727

Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters, Ludo Waltman, Sarah de Rijcke, Ismael Rafols. Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. Nature. 2015;520(7548):429-431. doi:10.1038/520429a

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Alan D. Kaye, Mark V. Boswell, Joshua A. Hirsch. Medical Journal Peer Review: Process and Bias. Pain Physician. 2015;18(1):E1-E14. doi:10.36076/ppj/2015.18.E1