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Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers

A Nobel prizewinner is six times more likely than someone less well known to get a thumbs-up for acceptance, finds study.
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Imagine you receive a paper to review for a journal, and the author’s name jumps out at you as that of a Nobel prizewinner. Would you be more inclined to recommend the paper for publication than if, say, the author was a novice? Research published in September says yes: by a factor of six1.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03256-9

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