Nepotism and sexism in peer-review

Christine Wennerås and Agnes Wold ()
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Christine Wennerås: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Agnes Wold: Department of Clinical Immunology at Göteborg University

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6631, 341-343

Abstract: In the first-ever analysis of peer-review scores for postdoctoral fellowship applications, the system is revealed as being riddled with prejudice. The policy of secrecy in evaluation must be abandoned.

Date: 1997
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