Bias, peer review, and publishing

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Holly O. Witteman, Michael Hendricks, Sharon Straus, Cara Tannenbaum. Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency. The Lancet. 2019;393(10171):531-540. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32611-4

Susan Guthrie, Daniela Rodriguez Rincon, Gordon McInroy, Becky Ioppolo, Salil Gunashekar. Measuring bias, burden and conservatism in research funding processes. F1000Research. 2019;8:851. doi:10.12688/f1000research.19156.1

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

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

Travis A. Hoppe, Aviva Litovitz, Kristine A. Willis, et al. Topic choice contributes to the lower rate of NIH awards to African-American/black scientists. Science Advances. 2019;5(10):aww7238. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw7238

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

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

Erin C McKiernan, Lesley A Schimanski, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Lisa Matthias, Meredith T Niles, Juan P Alperin. Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Emma Pewsey, Peter Rodgers, Björn Brembs, eds. eLife. 2019;8:e47338. doi:10.7554/eLife.47338

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