Session 5: Peer Review

Friday 2 June 2023 – 2.30pm-4.00pm (Turkish time)

Session 5.1 Reducing prestige bias in peer review with voluntary anonymization

In this session, the chair set the scene on the current understanding of bias and quality in peer review and asked each presenter to provide their findings on the impact of transparency or lack thereof on bias and quality of reviewer comments.

Chair

Bahar Mehmani

Reviewer Experience Lead, ElsevierNetherlands

Dr. Bahar Mehmani is the Peer Review Innovation Lead at Elsevier. She leads Elsevier journals’ peer review strategy and the Validation and Value innovation track. Bahar is also the chair of Peer Review Workbench which allows performing research on Elsevier journals’ peer review metadata to researchers, and an advisory member of Peer Review Congress. She was the past chair of the EASE peer review committee and is currently serving as EASE vice president. She received her PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2010. Before joining Elsevier, she was a postdoc researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).

Bahar’s ORCID: 0000-0003-4038-4531

Bahar’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmanib/

Bahar’s Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@bahar