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Nature 389, 326 (25 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38594

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Nepotism and sexism in peer-review

Gillian Breen1

  1. Medical Research Council, 20 Park Crescent, London W1N 4AL, UK

I and my colleagues read with interest the Commentary by Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold about nepotism and sexism in peer-review in the Swedish Medical Research Council (Nature 387, 341–343; 1997).We keep under constant review the fairness of our peer-review procedures and seek to ensure that our boards, committees and panels are constituted to reflect the clinical, non-clinical, gender, age, ethnic origin and geographical spread of the biomedical community in the United Kingdom.