Bias, peer review, and publishing

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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

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

Sandra Bendiscioli. The troubles with peer review for allocating research funding: Funders need to experiment with versions of peer review and decision‐making. EMBO reports. 2019;20:e49472. doi:10.15252/embr.201949472

Nicholas J. DeVito, Ben Goldacre. Catalogue of bias: publication bias. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 2019;24:53-54. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111107

Giangiacomo Bravo, Francisco Grimaldo, Emilia López-Iñesta, Bahar Mehmani, Flaminio Squazzoni. The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals. Nature Communications. 2019;10(1):322. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08250-2

Gemma Conroy. Q&A Linda Beaumont: Journals should take action against toxic peer reviews. Nature Index. 2019. https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news-blog/linda-beaumont-research-journals-should-take-action-against-toxic-peer-reviews.

Samir Haffar, Fateh Bazerbachi, M. Hassan Murad. Peer Review Bias: A Critical Review. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2019;94(4):670-676. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2018.09.004

Tony Ross-Hellauer, Edit Görögh. Guidelines for open peer review implementation. Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2019;4:4. doi:10.1186/s41073-019-0063-9

Kaitlyn Hair, Malcolm R. Macleod, Emily S. Sena, et al. A randomised controlled trial of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines (IICARus). Research Integrity and Peer Review. 2019;4:12. doi:10.1186/s41073-019-0069-3