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Personal attributes of authors and reviewers, social bias and the outcomes of
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; Neumann K
; Telefont M
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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 current systems are expensive, conservative and prone to
various forms of bias. One form of bias identified in the literature is "social
bias" linked to the personal attributes of authors and reviewers. To quantify the
importance of this form of bias in modern peer review, we analyze three datasets
providing information on the attributes of authors and reviewers and review
outcomes: one from Frontiers - an open access publishing house with a novel
interactive review process, and two from Spanish and international computer
science conferences, which use traditional peer review. We use a random intercept
model in which review outcome is the dependent variable, author and reviewer
attributes are the independent variables and bias is defined by the interaction
between author and reviewer attributes. We find no evidence of bias in terms of
gender, or the language or prestige of author and reviewer institutions in any of
the three datasets, but some weak evidence of regional bias in all three.
Reviewer gender and the language and prestige of reviewer institutions appear to
have little effect on review outcomes, but author gender, and the characteristics
of author institutions have moderate to large effects. The methodology used
cannot determine whether these are due to objective differences in scientific
merit or entrenched biases shared by all reviewers.