Bias, peer review, and publishing

Dana Strauss, Sophia Gran-Ruaz, Muna Osman, Monnica T. Williams, Sonya C. Faber. Racism and censorship in the editorial and peer review process. Frontiers in Psychology. 2023;14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1120938

Richard Van Noorden. More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record. Nature. 2023;624:479-481. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03974-8.

Abubakari Ahmed, Aceil Al-Khatib, Yap Boum, et al. The future of academic publishing. Nature Human Behaviour. 2023;7:1021-1026. doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01637-2

Nature. Research evaluation needs to change with the times. Nature. 2022;601(7892):166-166. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00056-z

James A. Middleton, Stephen Krause, Eugene Judson, et al. A Social Network Analysis of Engineering Faculty Connections: Their Impact on Faculty Student-Centered Attitudes and Practices. Education Sciences. 2022;12(2):108. doi:10.3390/educsci12020108

Liv Langfeldt. The Decision-Making Constraints and Processes of Grant Peer Review, and Their Effects on the Review Outcome. In: Eva Forsberg, Lars Geschwind, Sara Levander, Wieland Wermke, eds. Peer Review in an Era of Evaluation. London: Palgrave Macmillan Cham; 2022:297-326. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75263-7_13.

Research England, Scottish Funding Council, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland. Future Research Assessment Programme. https://beta.jisc.ac.uk/future-research-assessment-programme. Published 2022.

Jerry Suls, Alexander J. Rothman, Karina W. Davidson. Now Is the Time to Assess the Effects of Open Science Practices with Randomized Control Trials. The American psychologist. 2022;77(3):467-475. doi:10.1037/amp0000871

Geoff Frampton, Paul Whaley, Micah Bennett, et al. Principles and framework for assessing the risk of bias for studies included in comparative quantitative environmental systematic reviews. Environmental Evidence. 2022;11:12. doi:10.1186/s13750-022-00264-0

Holly Else, Jeffrey M. Perkel. The giant plan to track diversity in research journals. Nature. 2022;602:566-570. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00426-7.