Peer review articles from across Nature Portfolio

A meta-analysis of peer-review data from over 300,000 biological sciences manuscripts reveals worse review outcomes for authors from historically excluded groups, and limited data evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to address bias in peer review.

To increase transparency in science, some scholarly journals have begun publishing peer review reports. Here, the authors show how this policy shift affects reviewer behavior by analyzing data from five journals piloting open peer review.

Surgical video review offers objective skill evaluation and has advantages over traditional in-person assessments. In this Opinion, the authors discuss the emerging role of video review in urological surgery and highlight its applications and key challenges to widespread implementation.

A checklist is presented that can be used by peer reviewers for more effective and efficient assessment of research manuscripts.