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Gender bias in scholarly peer review
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Helmer M
; Schottdorf M
; Neef A
; Battaglia D
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Peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing and it is essential that
peer reviewers are appointed on the basis of their expertise alone. However, it
is difficult to check for any bias in the peer-review process because the
identity of peer reviewers generally remains confidential. Here, using public
information about the identities of 9000 editors and 43000 reviewers from the
Frontiers series of journals, we show that women are underrepresented in the
peer-review process, that editors of both genders operate with substantial
same-gender preference (homophily), and that the mechanisms of this homophily are
gender-dependent. We also show that homophily will persist even if numerical
parity between genders is reached, highlighting the need for increased efforts to
combat subtler forms of gender bias in scholarly publishing.