UW News
Carole Lee
August 29, 2023
Researchers prefer same-gender co-authors, UW study shows
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A new study from the University of Washington and Cornell University shows researchers more likely to write scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that can’t be explained by varying gender representations across scientific disciplines and time.
July 20, 2017
Bringing a ‘trust but verify’ model to journal peer review
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In a commentary published in the journal Science, Carole Lee, associate professor of philosophy and co-author David Moher identify incentives that could encourage journals to “open the black box of peer review” for the sake of improving transparency.