Phys.org September 21, 2022 The review process is designed to safeguard high standards, help improve promising work and weed out problematic papers, but a well-documented issue is bias in peer review. Whether conscious or otherwise, it compromises fair judgment based on things like gender, name, nationality, affiliation, or career status. To mitigate this researchers at the Michigan School of Information introduced and tested double-anonymous peer review, where the identities of authors as well as reviewers are concealed. The Institute of Physics was the first STM publisher to offer double-anonymous peer review across all their propriety journals on a voluntary basis […]
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Editorial Bias and Nepotism in Biomedical Journals Revealed by Massive Study
SciTech Daily December 4, 2021 An international team of researchers (France, Italy, Canada, UK) explored the usefulness of the Percentage of Papers by the Most Prolific author (PPMP) and the Gini index (level of inequality in the distribution of authorship among authors) as tools to identify journals that may show favoritism in accepting articles by specific authors. Among the journals with the highest PPMP or Gini index values, where a few authors were responsible for a disproportionate number of publications, a random sample was manually examined, revealing that the most prolific author was part of the editorial board in 60 […]