⚖️The double-anonymous peer review trial indicates reviewer bias is reduced when author identities are anonymised: when reviewers did not know whose paper they were reviewing, peer review outcomes were similar across author demographics... 📙buff.ly/3U7uyAA📙

People worry a lot about bias in peer review. The bad news: it's real (but doesn't work quite like I expected). The good news: it's quite easy to make a huge dent in it. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/pee… (On a new study in Functional Ecology by Charles Fox 🪲 et al.)

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💥New: Double-anonymous review is an effective way of combating status bias in scholarly publishing  #PeerReviewWeek23 British Ecological Society wp.me/p4m9em-cz4

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This little 2006 article by Andy Purvis (gone to where the skies are blue) contains the best bit of comic timing I've ever seen in an academic paper. cell.com/trends/ecology…

An exciting development from @EcolEnt - we are now switching to double-anonymous reviewing! The initiative will support Royal Entomological Society journal efforts to address bias in #PeerReview. More details here royensoc.co.uk/news/double-an… #AcademicPublishing Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Srivastava et al. Editors are biased too: An extension of Fox et al. (2023)'s analysis makes the case for triple‐blind review besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

THIS WINS THE DAY!!!!

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