Res Integr Peer Rev
August 2018
Background: Double-blind peer review has been proposed as a possible solution to avoid implicit referee bias in academic publishing. The aims of this study are to analyse the demographics of corresponding authors choosing double-blind peer review and to identify differences in the editorial outcome of manuscripts depending on their review model.
Methods: Data includes 128,454 manuscripts received between March 2015 and February 2017 by 25 Nature-branded journals.