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Professor Merryn Tawhai, Director, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland
"As Deputy Editor in Chief for a journal I have witnessed the increasing challenge in securing reviewers for manuscript submissions.
"This article evaluated the total time “in the peer review system” from submission to acceptance data, which includes the time to secure reviewers.
"One issue might relate to male academics still having higher profile than women academics, and reviewers being more receptive to reviewing manuscripts from people whose work they know. This would mean a longer time from submission to review for authors who are less well known or established (including authors from lower income countries, which this study points out also suffer the same issue). We cannot tell whether this is correct from this particular study, as it did not examine the different phases of review."
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