Yes, having a big name in science will help get your paper published, an unusually robust new study confirms.
Just 10% of reviewers of a test paper recommended acceptance when the sole listed author was obscure—but 59% endorsed the same manuscript when it carried the name of a Nobel laureate.
But efforts to document such bias often had weaknesses, such as a small sample size or lack of randomization. To avoid those problems, a team led by Jürgen Huber of the University of Innsbruck emailed some 3300 researchers, asking whether they would review an economics study prepared for a real journal.
The team then took a second step to avoid bias in their own study. They focused on the 313 willing reviewers who had initially received no author’s name and randomly assigned them to review one of three manuscripts, one listing only Smith, another just Inoua, and a third with no authors. The stark disparity might not surprise many researchers. But it is troubling, an author of the new study told the peer-review congress. “Identical work should not be evaluated differently depending on who wrote it,” said Christian König-Kersting, a behavioral economist at Innsbruck. “Because that makes it especially hard for younger and unknown researchers to get their foot in the door in the academic process.
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