Peer review of scientific manuscripts before publication is essential in scholarly publishing,
and most active researchers hold relationships with a number of journals as both an author …

Scholarly journals are often blamed for a gender gap in publication rates, but it is unclear
whether peer review and editorial processes contribute to it. This article examines gender …

This article examines gender bias in peer review with complete data on 145 journals in
various fields of research, including about 1.7 million authors and 740,000 referees. We …

Measures of research productivity have become widely used for obtaining tenure, third-party
funding, and additional resources from universities. However, previous studies indicate that …

Numerous studies have sought to uncover violations of objectivity and impartiality in peer
review; however the notion of reciprocity has been absent in much of this discussion …

In this paper, we provide insight into the editorial process as seen from the perspective of
journal editors. We study a dataset obtained from the Journal of the Serbian Chemical …

Peer review plays an essential role in the scholarly publishing life cycle. Using the verified
peer review records of reviewers who use the Publons, we employed review length as a …

Peer review is the" gold standard" for evaluating journal and conference papers, research
proposals, on-going projects and university departments. However, it is widely believed that …

The fairness of scholarly peer review has been challenged by evidence of disparities in
publication outcomes based on author demographic characteristics. To assess this, we …

The causes of gender bias favoring men in scientific and scholarly systems are complex and
related to overall gender relationships in most of the countries of the world. An as yet …