Effect of Blinded Peer Review on Abstract Acceptance

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Peer review of research should be based solely on scientific merit and research quality. Bias occurs if a review is influenced by other criteria, such as geographic location or institutional prestige. Several studies have examined the likelihood of acceptance of openly reviewed manuscripts or brief reports to journals by various author characteristics. They found differences in acceptance between authors from prestigious and nonprestigious institutions1 and between those submitted within and from outside the United States,2-4 but no differences were found between male and female authors.3,5 However, these studies could not distinguish whether differences were because of quality or bias.