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Huge peer-review study reveals lack of women and non-Westerners

Analysis of thousands of submissions to eLife journal shows that these groups are also under-represented as senior authors and editors.
  1. Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Women are inadequately represented as peer reviewers, journal editors and last authors of studies, according to an analysis of manuscript submissions to an influential biomedical journal.

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Nature 561, 295-296 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06678-6

References

  1. Murray, D. et al. Preprint at BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/400515 (2018).

  2. Lerback, J. & Hanson, B. Nature 541, 455–457 (2017).

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