Table 4. Poisson regression model predicting the number of rounds of reviews before manuscript’s acceptance.

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)	0.571	−1.171	−1.537	−1.427
	[0.488, 0.654]	[−1.444, −0.894]	[−1.821, −1.255]	[−1.710, −1.149]
	20,000:1	1:20,000	1:20,000	1:20,000
Women proportion (authors)	−0.002	−0.001	0.016	−0.006
	[−0.031, 0.027]	[−0.072, 0.071]	[−0.019, 0.052]	[−0.080, 0.069]
	1:1	1:1	4:1	1:1
Women proportion (referees)	0.037	0.083	0.049	0.007
	[0.013, 0.060]	[0.022, 0.143]	[0.019, 0.079]	[−0.069, 0.082]
	951:1	307:1	951:1	1:1
Review score	−0.389	1.712	1.812	2.251
	[−0.423, −0.355]	[1.642, 1.783]	[1.783, 1.842]	[2.153, 2.349]
	1:20,000	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1
IF	−0.007	0.021	0.036	0.026
	[−0.021, 0.007]	[−0.002, 0.043]	[0.022, 0.049]	[−0.06, 0.111]
	1:6	28:1	20,000:1	3:1
Number of authors	0.002	0.010	0.014	−0.005
	[0, 0.005]	[0.004, 0.015]	[0.01, 0.017]	[−0.018, 0.008]
	43:1	6,666:1	20,000:1	1:3
Number of referees	0.053	0.065	0.106	0.089
	[0.042, 0.063]	[0.039, 0.091]	[0.095, 0.117]	[0.051, 0.127]
	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1	20,000:1
Agreement	−0.022	0.031	0.056	0.033
	[−0.055, 0.012]	[−0.048, 0.111]	[0.019, 0.092]	[−0.075, 0.145]
	1:9	4:1	799:1	3:1
PR type: single-blind	−0.072	−0.051	0.095	−0.133
	[−0.155, 0.011]	[−0.303, 0.196]	[−0.192, 0.383]	[−0.554, 0.278]
	1:22	1:2	3:1	1:3