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 Reviewer Experience Lead in the Global STM journals at Elsevier. She developed and leads Elsevier journals peer review strategy designed to increase peer review speed and quality, reviewer engagement, and author satisfaction with the quality and speed of the evaluation process, as well as the peer review process transparency. Bahar is a member of NISO’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility board (link), and advisory board member of the Peer Review Congress (link), chair of peer review workbench (link) and chair of EASE peer review committee as well as its council member. 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).

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

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