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Is there bias in editorial choice? Yes

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Nature has recently published a Correspondence claiming the absence of fame biases in the editorial choice. The topic is interesting and deserves a deeper analysis than it was presented because the reported brief analysis and its conclusion are somewhat biased for many reasons, some of them are discussed here. Since the editorial assessment is a form of peer-review, the biases reported on external peer-reviews would, thus, apply to the editorial assessment, too. The biases would be proportional to the elitist level of a journal; the more elitist a journal, the more biased its decisions, unavoidably. The bias could be intentional or unintentional, conscious or subconscious, reflecting our imperfect human nature.

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  • Moustafa, Khaled, 2018. "Is there bias in editorial choice? Yes," arabixiv.org vyt79, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:arabix:vyt79
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vyt79
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    1. Omid Mahian, 2015. "Is there fame bias in editorial choice?," Nature, Nature, vol. 519(7544), pages 414-414, March.
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