Table 3. Logistic mixed-effects models on the final editorial decision (accept) by field of research using the first and last author’s gender as predictors.

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)	−6.116	−4.502	−7.020	−5.291
	[−6.530, −5.700]	[−5.844, −3.156]	[−7.960, −6.088]	[−6.282, −4.322]
	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000
First author woman	0.001	−0.099	0.099	−0.065
	[−0.067, 0.069]	[−0.218, 0.022]	[0.035, 0.163]	[−0.259, 0.127]
	1:1	1:18	768:1	1:3
Last author woman	−0.056	−0.050	−0.034	0.039
	[−0.125, 0.014]	[−0.181, 0.081]	[−0.109, 0.024]	[−0.148, 0.223]
	1:16	1:3	1:8	2:1
Women proportion (referees)	−0.135	−0.063	−0.033	−0.190
	[−0.233, −0.037]	[−0.254, 0.130]	[−0.132, 0.066]	[−0.429, 0.044]
	1:302	1:3	1:3	1:16
Review score	6.017	6.246	6.056	5.785
	[5.889, 6.145]	[5.966, 6.532]	[5.928, 6.186]	[5.393, 6.181]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1
Agreement	1.207	0.635	0.646	0.353
	[1.063, 1.353]	[0.387, 0.886]	[0.523, 0.769]	[−0.003, 0.710]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	38:1
IF	−0.059	−0.139	0.044	−0.173
	[−0.120, 0.002]	[−0.223, −0.053]	[−0.003, 0.091]	[−0.454, 0.113]
	1:33	1:1,817	28:1	1:8
Number of authors	0.005	−0.045	0.051	0.024
	[−0.005, 0.015]	[−0.061, −0.029]	[0.039, 0.063]	[−0.020, 0.068]
	6:1	1:20,000	20,000:1	6:1
Number of referees	−0.188	−0.199	−0.137	−0.286
	[−0.236, −0.141]	[−0.285, −0.114]	[−0.177, −0.098]	[−0.416, −0.155]
	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000
PR type: single-blind	0.537	0.099	1.336	1.094
	[0.113, 0.974]	[−1.245, 1.435]	[0.405, 2.284]	[−0.406, 2.601]
	143:1	1:1	391:1	14:1
Number of revision rounds	4.100	3.707	4.018	3.834
	[4.036, 4.165]	[3.597, 3.819]	[3.961, 4.076]	[3.687, 3.988]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1
Sensitivity	0.93	0.93	0.93	0.92
Specificity	0.97	0.96	0.97	0.96