"Elite" peer review was studied by Daniel Larremore and colleagues using an anonymised dataset from AAAS of 112,000 papers submitted to Science and Science Advances. A few more desk rejects for women authors, but no difference in peer review. Clear preference for work from prestigious institutions: biased or just better? Big teams also do better.
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