Bias, peer review, and publishing

Olivia M. Smith, Kayla L. Davis, Robin Waterman, et al. Journals must expand access to peer review data. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2024;39(4):311-314. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.003

Mark J. Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew Grey. Publication integrity: what is it, why does it matter, how it is safeguarded and how could we do better?. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 2024:1-20. doi:10.1080/03036758.2024.2325004

Tony Ross-Hellauer, Serge P J M Horbach. Additional experiments required: A scoping review of recent evidence on key aspects of Open Peer Review. Research Evaluation. 2024:rvae004. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvae004

Stefanie Schneider, Cat Morgan, Clayton Magill, Marion Hersh, Katherine Sang, Robert MacIntosh. Evidence Review: Peer Review Bias in the Funding Process: Main Themes and Interventions. Edinburgh: Heriot-Watt University; 2024. https://doi.org/10.17861/YDDH-B137.

Aurore Receveur, Jonathan Bonfanti, Stephanie D’Agata, et al. David versus Goliath: Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system. Ecology Letters. 2024;27(3):e14395. doi:10.1111/ele.14395

David Johann, Jörg Neufeld, Kathrin Thomas, Justus Rathmann, Heiko Rauhut. The impact of researchers’ perceived pressure on their publication strategies. Research Evaluation. 2024:rvae011. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvae011

Mike Lauer, Marie A. Bernard. Trends Generally Continue in FY 2023 for Demographic-Specific Funding Rates for Type 1 Research Project Grant and R01-Equivalent Applications –. https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/07/29/trends-generally-continue-in-fy-2023-for-demographic-specific-funding-rates-for-type-1-research-project-grant-and-r01-equivalent-applications/. Published 2024.

Declaration on Research Assessment. Signers. https://sfdora.org/signers/. Published 2024.

Manuel Ansede. Public funds being swallowed up by scientific journals with dubious articles. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-10-31/public-funds-being-swallowed-up-by-scientific-journals-with-dubious-articles.html. Published 2023.

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