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. 2020 Jul 17;9:e53249. doi: 10.7554/eLife.53249

Figure 1. Words counts in peer review reports.

Figure 1.

Word count (mean and 95% confidence interval; LIWC analysis) of peer review reports in four broad areas of research for double-blind review (top) and single-blind review (bottom), and for female reviewers (left) and male reviewers (right). Reports recommending accept (red) were consistently the shortest, and reports recommending major revisions (green) were consistently the longest. See Supplementary file 1 for summary data and mixed model linear regression coefficients and residuals. HMS: health and medical sciences; LS: life sciences; PS: physical sciences; SS&E: social sciences and economics.