Scientific Communication and Education

Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals

1. Chaoqun Ni
2. Isabel Basson
3. Giovanna Badia
4. Nathalie Tufenkji
5. Cassidy R Sugimoto
6. Vincent Larivière

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This convincing study, which is based on a survey of researchers, finds that women are less likely than men to submit articles to elite journals. It also finds that there is no relation between gender and reported desk rejection. The study is an important contribution to work on gender bias in the scientific literature.

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Human Attitudes Toward Insects and Spiders: Exploring the Paradoxes of Ecological Value and Discomfort

1. Divya Arora
2. Sunil Dutt Shukla

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Identifying gaps between scientific and local knowledge in climate change adaptation for northern European agriculture

1. Kristina Blennow
2. Georg Carlsson
3. Laura Joy Grenville-Briggs
4. Per Hansson
5. Asa Lankinen

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The evolution of interdisciplinarity and internationalization in scientific journals

1. Huaxia Zhou
2. Luís A Nunes Amaral

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study uses data on over 56 million articles to examine the dynamics of interdisciplinarity and international collaborations in research journals. The data analytics used to quantify disciplinary and national diversity are convincing, and support the claims that journals have become more diverse in both aspects.

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“Spurring and Siloing: Identity Navigation in Scientific Writing Among Asian Student Researchers”

1. Devon Goss
2. Meena Balgopal
3. Shaila Sachdev
4. Grace Kim
5. LaTonia Taliaferro-Smith
6. Sarah C. Fankhauser

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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings

1. Lokman I. Meho

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Addressing cultural and knowledge barriers to enable preclinical sex inclusive research

1. Brianna N Gaskill
2. Benjamin Phillips
3. Jonathan Ho
4. Holly Rafferty
5. Oladele Olajide Onada
6. Andrew Rooney
7. Amrita Ahluwalia
8. Natasha A Karp

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  eLife Assessment

  The authors quantified intentions and knowledge gaps in scientists' use of sex as a biological variable in their work, and used a workshop intervention to show that while willingness was high, pressure points centered on statistical knowledge and perceived additional monetary costs to research. These important findings demonstrate the difficulty in changing understanding - while interventions can improve knowledge and decrease perceived barriers, the impact was small. The evidence was solid, although the sample size was small for the intervention.

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LGBTQ+ realities in the biological sciences

1. Katelyn M. Cooper
2. Carly A. Busch
3. Alice Accorsi
4. Derek A. Applewhite
5. Parth B. Bhanderi
6. Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo
7. Abhijit Deb Roy
8. Joseph P. Campanale
9. Fred Chang
10. Jerry E. Chipuk
11. Lee A. Ligon
12. G.W. Gant Luxton
13. Austin J. Graham
14. Camila Hochman-Mendez
15. Imge Ozugergin
16. Zachory M. Park
17. Claire M. Thomas
18. Alex M. Valm
19. Hongxian Zhu
20. Rebecca S. Alvania

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Fast & Fair peer review: a pilot study demonstrating feasibility of rapid, high-quality peer review in a biology journal

1. Daniel A. Gorelick
2. Alejandra Clark

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A ChatGPT-Assisted Reading Protocol for Undergraduate Research Students

1. Marcus Sambar
2. Gonzalo R. Vázquez
3. Anne V. Vázquez
4. Frank X. Vázquez

Reviewed by preLights