Bias, peer review, and publishing

Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Alex O. Holcombe. A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review. Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2021;6(1):14. doi:10.1186/s41073-021-00118-2

Michael S. Lauer, Jamie Doyle, Joy Wang, Deepshikha Roychowdhury. Associations of topic-specific peer review outcomes and institute and center award rates with funding disparities at the National Institutes of Health. eLife. 2021;10:e67173. doi:10.7554/eLife.67173

Marissa M. Shams-White, Rolando Barajas, Roxanne E. Jensen, et al. Systems epidemiology and cancer: A review of the National Institutes of Health extramural grant portfolio 2013-2018. PloS One. 2021;16(4):e0250061. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0250061

Laura Cruz-Castro, Luis Sanz-Menendez. What should be rewarded? Gender and evaluation criteria for tenure and promotion. Journal of Informetrics. 2021;15(3):101196. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2021.101196

Kristijan Armeni, Loek Brinkman, Rickard Carlsson, et al. Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities. Science and Public Policy. 2021;48(5):605-611. doi:10.1093/scipol/scab039

Mario Gaudino, N. Bryce Robinson, Antonino Di Franco, et al. Effects of Experimental Interventions to Improve the Biomedical Peer-Review Process: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021;10(15):e019903. doi:10.1161/JAHA.120.019903

Belén Álvarez-Bornstein, María Bordons. Is funding related to higher research impact? Exploring its relationship and the mediating role of collaboration in several disciplines. Journal of Informetrics. 2021;15(1):101102. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2020.101102

Tamarinde Haven, Joeri Tijdink, Brian Martinson, Lex Bouter, Frans Oort. Explaining variance in perceived research misbehavior: results from a survey among academic researchers in Amsterdam. Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2021;6:7. doi:10.1186/s41073-021-00110-w

Latin American Forum for Research Assessment. Evaluating Scientific Research Assessment. https://www.clacso.org/en/evaluating-scientific-research-assessment/. Published 2021.

Natalie Shoham, Alexandra Pitman. Open versus blind peer review: is anonymity better than transparency? BJPsych Advances. 2021;27(4):247-254. doi:10.1192/bja.2020.61