Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

Background:“Open peer review”(OPR), despite being a major pillar of Open Science, has
neither a standardized definition nor an agreed schema of its features and implementations …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is altering dynamics in academia, and
people juggling remote work and domestic demands–including childcare–have felt impacts …

Background Across countries and disciplines, studies show male researchers receive more
research funding than their female peers. Because most studies have been observational, it …

Peer review may be “single-blind,” in which reviewers are aware of the names and
affiliations of paper authors, or “double-blind,” in which this information is hidden. Noting that …

Peer review is central to the scientific process and scientists' career advancement, but bias
at various stages of the review process disadvantages some authors. Here we use peer …

We conducted two studies and our primary goal was to assess the similarity between
stereotypes about women and men and stereotypes about successful scientists. In addition …

Numerous studies across different research fields have shown that both male and female
referees consistently give higher scores to work done by men than to identical work done by …

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 …

Objective To examine changes in representation of women among first authors of original
research published in high impact general medical journals from 1994 to 2014 and …