Bias, peer review, and publishing

Mark J. Rice. The institutional review board is an impediment to human research: the result is more animal-based research. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine. 2011;6:12. doi:10.1186/1747-5341-6-12

Donna K. Ginther, Walter T. Schaffer, Joshua Schnell, et al. Race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards. Science. 2011;333(6045):1015-1019. doi:10.1126/science.1196783

Liv Langfeldt, Svein Kyvik. Researchers as evaluators: tasks, tensions and politics. Higher Education. 2011;62:199-212. doi:10.1007/s10734-010-9382-y

Craig M. Rawlings, Daniel A. McFarland. Influence flows in the academy: Using affiliation networks to assess peer effects among researchers. Social Science Research. 2011;40(3):1001-1017. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.10.002

Joel A. C. Baum. Free-Riding on Power Laws: questioning the validity of the Impact Factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies. Organization. 2011;18(4):449-466. doi:10.1177/1350508411403531

Hidde Ploegh. End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments. Nature. 2011;472(7344):391-391. doi:10.1038/472391a

Sara Schroter, Trish Groves, Liselotte Højgaard. Surveys of current status in biomedical science grant review: funding organisations’ and grant reviewers’ perspectives. BMC Medicine. 2010;8:62. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-8-62

Michael R. Donaldson, Kyle C. Hanson, Caleb T. Hasler, Timothy D. Clark, Scott G. Hinch, Steven J. Cooke. Injecting youth into peer-review to increase its sustainability: a case study of ecology journals. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution. 2010;3. https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/article/view/2346.

Lawrence D. Berg, Jani Vuolteenaho, eds. Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming. London: Routledge; 2009:306. https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Toponymies-The-Contested-Politics-of-Place-Naming/Berg-Vuolteenaho/p/book/9781138267756.

Steven A. Greenberg. How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network. BMJ. 2009;339:b2680. doi:10.1136/bmj.b2680