Table 2. Logistic mixed-effects models on the final editorial decision (accept) by field of research using the gender ratio as predictor.

Mean estimate, 95% CI, and Bayes factor (β > 0) are reported for each variable.

Variable	Biomedicine and health science	Life science	Physical science	Social science
(Intercept)	−6.224	−4.698	−7.069	−5.124
	[−6.629, −5.827]	[−6.048, −3.366]	[−7.970, −6.174]	[−6.071, −4.200]
	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000
Women proportion (authors)	0.129	0.050	0.205	−0.065
	[0.022, 0.235]	[−0.143, 0.244]	[0.115, 0.296]	[−0.291, 0.156]
	103:1	2:1	20,000:1	1:2
Women proportion (referees)	−0.154	−0.042	−0.041	−0.234
	[−0.240, −0.070]	[−0.206, 0.122]	[−0.119, 0.036]	[−0.448, −0.020]
	1:2,856	1:2	1:6	1:59
Review score	6.020	6.176	6.095	5.823
	[5.907, 6.134]	[5.936, 6.416]	[5.996, 6.194]	[5.470, 6.181]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1
Agreement	1.214	0.667	0.708	0.202
	[1.086, 1.339]	[0.449, 0.879]	[0.613, 0.801]	[−0.122, 0.525]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	8:1
IF	−0.059	−0.140	0.058	−0.143
	[−0.112, −0.004]	[−0.215, −0.065]	[0.020, 0.095]	[−0.403, 0.114]
	1:57	1:20,000	832:1	1:6
Number of authors	0.002	−0.039	0.045	0.014
	[−0.006, 0.011]	[−0.053, −0.025]	[0.035, 0.054]	[−0.026, 0.055]
	2:1	1:20,000	20,000:1	3:1
Number of referees	−0.184	−0.160	−0.103	−0.300
	[−0.226, −0.142]	[−0.234, −0.0986]	[−0.133, −0.072]	[−0.420, −0.180]
	1:20,000	1:19,999	1:20,000	1:20,000
PR type: single-blind	0.532	0.117	1.185	1.091
	[0.97, 0.962]	[−1.228, 1.472]	[0.281, 2.110]	[−0.391, 2.592]
	105:1	1:1	162:1	14:1
Number of revision rounds	4.094	3.670	3.99	3.756
	[4.037, 4.152]	[3.578, 3.766]	[3.95, 4.04]	[3.624, 3.889]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1
Sensitivity	0.93	0.93	0.93	0.92
Specificity	0.96	0.95	0.97	0.97