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Cassidy SugimotoCassidy Sugimoto, professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy, was mentioned in the article, 'Why early-career researchers should step up to the peer-review plate', published on January 31, 2022 on Nature.
An excerpt:
The effects of this older, predominantly male reviewer pool trickle down into manuscript acceptance rates, according to a paper posted on the preprint server bioRxiv (and thus not yet peer reviewed itself)4. Information scientist Cassidy Sugimoto at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and her colleagues analysed thousands of eLife submissions, and found that women, as well as researchers who were not from North America or Europe, were less likely to be editors, reviewers and authors. When editors and reviewers happened to match the gender or geography of authors, acceptance rates went up.
