Uptake and outcome of manuscripts in Nature journals by review model and author characteristics

Research Integrity and Peer Review
Barbara McGillivray, Elisa De Ranieri

Abstract

Double-blind peer review has been proposed as a possible solution to avoid implicit referee bias in academic publishing. The aims of this study are to analyse the demographics of corresponding authors choosing double-blind peer review and to identify differences in the editorial outcome of manuscripts depending on their review model. Data includes 128,454 manuscripts received between March 2015 and February 2017 by 25 Nature-branded journals. We investigated the uptake of double-blind review in relation to journal tier, as well as gender, country, and institutional prestige of the corresponding author. We then studied the manuscripts' editorial outcome in relation to review model and author's characteristics. The gender (male, female, or NA) of the corresponding authors was determined from their first name using a third-party service (Gender API). The prestige of the corresponding author's institutions was measured from the data of the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) by dividing institutions in three prestige groups with reference to the 2016 Times Higher Education (THE) ranking. We employed descriptive statistics for data exploration, and we tested our hypotheses using Pearson's chi-square and binomial tests. We als...Continue Reading

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Apr 5, 2019·The Medical Journal of Australia·Jose Florencio F LapeñaWilfred Cg Peh
May 15, 2019·Obstetrics and Gynecology·Alina TvinaAnna Palatnik
May 15, 2019·Obstetrics and Gynecology·Nancy C Chescheir
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May 29, 2019·Obstetrics and Gynecology·Alina TvinaAnna Palatnik
May 13, 2020·Nature Medicine·Matthew HarrisDhananjaya Sharma
May 29, 2019·Obstetrics and Gynecology·Nancy C Chescheir
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Jul 15, 2021·Obstetrics and Gynecology·Stephanie J Casway, Dwight J Rouse
Aug 31, 2021·Trends in Ecology & Evolution·Stephanie BrodieNatașa Văidianu

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