Authors from richer, English-speaking countries gain unconscious boost when identified to referees, study finds
Charles Fox, an entomologist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington who led the latest study, says that he wanted to examine whether unconscious bias influences how reviewers evaluate research, and whether double-blind peer review — in which neither authors nor reviewers know each others’ identities — solves the problem., together with the journal’s editorial team, began a randomized trial to evaluate the costs and impacts of shifting the journal to double-blind peer review.
“Double-blind review certainly seems to be a promising way to mitigate biases,” says AlShebli, who was not involved in the current study. Academic publishers can also help to stop favouritism by enforcing policies that block editors from handling manuscripts submitted by their recent collaborators, she adds.
In a statement published on 4 April, the British Ecological Society, which publishes seven journals, including, said in response to Fox and his colleagues’ findings that it would start requiring all its journals to use double-blind peer review.
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