Monthly Archives: December 2017

Are you aware of gender bias in peer review?

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Last month, Dina Balabanova, (Associate Professor in Health Systems Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); Section Editor for BMC Health Services Research) and Jamie Lundine (Research Fellow at LSHTM), hosted a workshop at LSHTM to discuss gender equality in peer review. The specific aim was to discuss ways to address… Read more »

… And an aphid in a peach tree!

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For some fun festive reading, we’re highlighting twelve articles published in our journals for the twelve days of Christmas. So without further ado … “On the twelfth day of Christmas my journals gave to me” …

Trialing transparency at Genome Biology

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Earlier this year Genome Biology launched a trial of transparent peer review, allowing reviewers’ reports and authors’ responses to them to be published alongside the final article. Here to update us on the trial and the responses to it, is Senior Editor, Andrew Cosgrove.