Bias, peer review, and publishing

Dietmar Wolfram, Peiling Wang, Adam Hembree, Hyoungjoo Park. Open peer review: promoting transparency in open science. Scientometrics. 2020;125(2):1033-1051. doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03488-4

Flaminio Squazzoni, Petra Ahrweiler, Tiago Barros, et al. Unlock ways to share data on peer review. Nature. 2020;578:512-514. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00500-y

Helen Le Sueur, Arianna Dagliati, Iain Buchan, et al. Pride and prejudice – What can we learn from peer review? Medical Teacher. 2020;42(9):1012-1018. doi:10.1080/0142159X.2020.1774527

Simon Lohse, Martin S. Wasmer, Thomas A. C. Reydon. Integrating Philosophy of Science into Research on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Life Sciences. Perspectives on Science. 2020;28(6):700-736. doi:10.1162/posc_a_00357

Joel Henrique Ellwanger, José Artur Bogo Chies. We need to talk about peer-review—Experienced reviewers are not endangered species, but they need motivation. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2020;125:201-205. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.02.001

Anna Severin, Joao Martins, Rachel Heyard, François Delavy, Anne Jorstad, Matthias Egger. Gender and other potential biases in peer review: cross-sectional analysis of 38 250 external peer review reports. BMJ Open. 2020;10(8):e035058. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035058

Danielle B. Rice, Hana Raffoul, John P. A. Ioannidis, David Moher. Academic criteria for promotion and tenure in biomedical sciences faculties: cross sectional analysis of international sample of universities. BMJ. 2020;369:m2081. doi:10.1136/bmj.m2081

Mike Thelwall, Liz Allen, Eleanor-Rose Papas, Zena Nyakoojo, Verena Weigert. Does the use of open, non-anonymous peer review in scholarly publishing introduce bias? Evidence from the F1000Research post-publication open peer review publishing model. Journal of Information Science. 2020;47(6):809-820. doi:10.1177/0165551520938678

Alison Mudditt. Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/02/18/reforming-research-assessment-a-tough-nut-to-crack/. Published 2020.

A Hatch, R Schmidt. Rethinking Research Assessment: Unintended Cognitive and System Biases.; 2020. https://sfdora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/DORA_UnintendendedCognitiveSystemBiases.pdf.