The National Science Foundation awarded a $501,890 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to assess bias and idiosyncrasies in elite scientific peer review. The University of Colorado will produce and make publicly available multiple comprehensive anonymized datasets spanning submitted manuscripts and reviews from two elite general science journals over multiple years and fields. The University will quantitatively analyze these datasets to assess the magnitude, sources, and effects of both social biases and editorial idiosyncrasies within elite peer review using statistical methods from causal inference, statistical modeling, machine learning, and natural language processing. The anonymized datasets and analysis results will provide insights on the dependence of review outcomes on social demographic and professional attributes to statistically quantify social biases and editorial idiosyncrasies across manuscripts, editors, and fields. The project period is from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $501.9k | 7/1/22 |