#GenderInequity: “[W]omen were more likely than men to indicate that their “work was not ground-breaking or sufficiently novel” as a rationale for not submitting to one of the listed prestigious journals.” #EpiSky #Academia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals

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wow - I can add my own N=1 anecdotal data to this: “my methods probably aren’t novel enough for [BFD epi journal] so maybe I should submit elsewhere?” when discussing with my doctoral advisor where to submit one of my manus.