Analysis of peer reviewers' response to invitations by gender and geographical region: cohort study of manuscripts reviewed at 21 biomedical journals before and during covid-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe gender and geographical inequalities in invitations to review and the response to these invitations and to assess whether inequalities increased during the covid-19 pandemic.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

19 specialist medical journals and two large general medical journals from BMJ Publishing Group.

Population

Reviewers invited to review manuscripts submitted between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2021. The cohort was followed up to 28 February 2022.

Main outcome measures

Reviewer's agreement to review.

Results

A total of 257 025 reviewers were invited (38.6% (88 454/228 869) women), and 90 467 (35.2%) agreed to review. Invited reviewers were mainly (217 682; 84.7%) affiliated with high income countries: Europe (122

SUBMITTER: Ben Messaoud K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10471900 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature