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Letter: Evidence of bias

Published 6 February 2008

From Catherine Scott

A gender bias in publication of refereed articles (19 January, p 7)? Does that really happen?

Well, there was that time when a journal that did not use double-blind refereeing sent back the reviewers’ comments and judgement to reject, not to little old first and corresponding author me, but to the second, male, author. Another journal, using a double-blind review process subsequently accepted and printed the article.

Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2642 published 9 February 2008

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