Overcoming the gender bias in ecology and evolution: is the double-anonymized peer review an effective pathway over time?

ABSTRACT: Male researchers dominate scientific production in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, potential mechanisms to avoid this gender imbalance remain poorly explored in STEM, including ecology and evolution areas. In the last decades, changes in the peer-review process towards double-anonymized (DA) have increased among ecology and evolution (EcoEvo) journals. Using comprehensive data on articles from 18 selected EcoEvo journals with an impact factor >1, we tested the effect of the DA peer-review process in female-leading (i.e., first and senior authors) articles. We tested whether the representation of female-leading authors differs between double and single-anonymized (SA) peer-reviewed journals. Also, we tested if the adoption of the DA by previous SA j

SUBMITTER: Cassia-Silva C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100800 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature