Male academics are more highly evaluated by magazine publishers if it is revealed that they work at a first-class university, but the same bias does not materialize for female academics, according to a new study.
A Explore the effect of the institutional bias in peer review decisions, researchers asked the editors to leading economy journals in the world to evaluate a handful of abstracts to guess if the document was published or not, the appointments you received and your overall assessment of its quality.
While the editors saw the same summaries, the study varied if they could see the author's name and affiliation. Despite the fact that 79 percent of the 165 respondents are men, the analysis found that there was no gender bias open in the evaluations, with women who faced not biases when the author's name was visible to the editor compared to when It was not.
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, but the study, which has been published Online as a work paper, he found that the editors who evaluated the work of a male author of a highly classified institution rated it more positively if the affiliation was revealed to the editors.
"Men receive an impulse on how their work is evaluated to land on a top institution and are almost punished by being in a lower institution," the study authors, Fully Ersoy and Jennifer Pate, which They are both headquartered in the economy department of Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, said Times Superior Education.
"On the other hand, women of the best institutions and lower-ranking institutions are not evaluated differently."
The reason for the conclusion of the study that "the institution serves as a sign of quality of work for men, but not for women" can be explained by the prejudices of publishers in terms of why F Economists Emale had been appointed, the authors speculated.
"The successes of women are attributed to affirmative or affirmative action policies, while the successes of men are attributed to their skills and abilities," they said. Googleg .cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("DFP-Ad-Article_in_Article");) Do you want to announce? Click here
The study stressed the need for Blind Couple Review in the economy: a field traditionally dominated by men, insofar as only two of the 84 Nobeles of discipline have been women, given that " Tenure decisions in the economy are strongly linked to the quantity and quality of publications in peer-reviewed journals, "said the authors.
The analysis is added to a growing body of literature that suggests that the issue of gender bias in peer review is less clear. Cut that some have claimed; In January, a review of 350,000 presentations at 1.7 million authors in 145 magazines in several fields found "peer reviews and editorial processes do not penalize women's manuscripts." However, he called the magazines to diversify his editorial teams and critical groups.
