Bias, peer review, and publishing

Finn Luebber, Sören Krach, Frieder M. Paulus, Lena Rademacher, Rima-Maria Rahal. Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line. Nature Communications. 2025;16(1):9824. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-65660-9

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

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

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

David Johann, Jörg Neufeld, Kathrin Thomas, Justus Rathmann, Heiko Rauhut. The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies. Research Evaluation. 2024:rvae011. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvae011

Olivia M. Smith, Kayla L. Davis, Robin Waterman, et al. Journals must expand access to peer review data. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2024;39(4):311-314. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.003

Mark J. Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew Grey. Publication integrity: what is it, why does it matter, how it is safeguarded and how could we do better? Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 2024:1-20. doi:10.1080/03036758.2024.2325004

Tony Ross-Hellauer, Serge P J M Horbach. Additional experiments required: A scoping review of recent evidence on key aspects of Open Peer Review. Research Evaluation. 2024:rvae004. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvae004

Aurore Receveur, Jonathan Bonfanti, Stephanie D’Agata, et al. David versus Goliath: Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system. Ecology Letters. 2024;27(3):e14395. doi:10.1111/ele.14395

Declaration on Research Assessment. Signers. https://sfdora.org/signers/. Published 2024.