Fig 7. Factors predicting the first decision (accept/revise or reject) on the manuscript’s outcome, showing the posterior mode estimates for the fixed effects in the binomial model.

The model contained: manuscript type (N: research paper = 1689, reviews = 52, short notes = 200, special issue = 15, contrast level = research paper), year, interaction between the gender of first author and gender of the reviewer, continent of affiliation (N: Africa = 19, America = 683, Asia = 51, Europe = 1066, Oceania = 137, contrast level = Europe), gender of the last author (N: male = 1463, female = 493, contrast level = female), gender of the reviewer (N: male = 1509, female = 447, contrast level = female) and gender of the first author (N: male = 1105, female = 851, contrast level = female). An asterix (*) indicates posterior modes whose 95% credible intervals do not overlap zero, after FDR correction.