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Personal attributes of authors and reviewers, social bias and the outcomes of peer review: a case study [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5gj]
Richard Walker, Beatriz Barros, Ricardo Conejo, Konrad Neumann, Martin Telefont

The authors of this article compare the review process at Frontiers with that of two computer science conferences that use traditional peer review, to determine reviewer bias.
“Reviewer gender and the language and prestige of reviewer institutions appear to have little effect on review outcomes, but author gender, and the characteristics of author institutions have moderate to large effects. The methodology used cannot determine whether these are due to objective differences in scientific merit or entrenched biases shared by all reviewers.”

Articles that recently passed peer review

A reanalysis of mouse ENCODE comparative gene expression data [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5ez]
Yoav Gilad, Orna Mizrahi-Man

In silico analysis suggests repurposing of ibuprofen for prevention and treatment of EBOLA virus disease [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5bs]
Veljko Veljkovic, Marco Goeijenbier, Sanja Glisic, Nevena Veljkovic, Vladimir R. Perovic, Milan Sencanski, Donald R. Branch, Slobodan Paessler

AGA: Interactive pipeline for reproducible genomics analyses [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4zc]
Michael Considine, Hilary Parker, Yingying Wei, Xaio Xia, Leslie Cope, Michael Ochs, Elana Fertig