Follow us on Twitter @PREreview_
Email us at contact@prereview.org
PREreview is a grassroots initiative founded in 2017 led by three women scientists, Drs. Daniela Saderi, Monica Granados, and Samantha Hindle. The project is fiscally sponsored by the non-profit organisation Code for Science & Society and so far has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and Mozilla.
1: Merriam Webster’s definition of Peer Review: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peer%20review
2: Helmer, Markus, Manuel Schottdorf, Andreas Neef, and Demian Battaglia. 2017. “Gender Bias in Scholarly Peer Review.” eLife 6 (March). https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21718.
3: Lerback, Jory C., American Geophysical Union, and R. Brooks Hanson. 2016. “GENDER BIAS IN PEER REVIEW AND SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING.” https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016am-281633.
4:“Nature’s Sexism.” 2012. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/491495a.
5:Fox, Charles W., C. Sean Burns, and Jennifer A. Meyer. 2016. “Editor and Reviewer Gender Influence the Peer Review Process but Not Peer Review Outcomes at an Ecology Journal.” Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12529.
6:Chawla, Dalmeet Singh. 2018. “Huge Peer-Review Study Reveals Lack of Women and Non-Westerners.” Nature 561 (7723): 295.
7:Murray, Dakota, Kyle Siler, Vincent Larivière, Wei Mun Chan, Andrew M. Collings, Jennifer Raymond, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. 2018. “Gender and International Diversity Improves Equity in Peer Review.” Scientific Communication and Education. bioRxiv.