Table 4.
Sentiment of reviews addressed to authors by reviewers (all submission types)
| Year | Number of reviews |
Word count Mean ± SD |
% Positive words |
% Negative words |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Women | Men | P | Women | Men | P | Women | Men | P | |
| Authorsa | |||||||||||
| 2017 | 1523 | 2478 | 72 ± 81 | 66 ± 70 | .02 | 14.8 | 14.0 | .007 | 3.0 | 3.0 | .90 |
| 2018 | 1801 | 2636 | 69 ± 71 | 68 ± 70 | .60 | 14.7 | 14.7 | .95 | 3.2 | 3.0 | .20 |
| 2019 | 1724 | 2498 | 76 ± 74 | 78 ± 77 | .31 | 14.7 | 14.2 | .03 | 3.2 | 3.1 | .90 |
| All Years | 5048 | 7612 | 72 ± 75 | 71 ± 73 | .30 | 14.7 | 14.3 | .005 | 3.1 | 3.0 | .25 |
| Reviewersb | |||||||||||
| 2017 | 1537 | 2575 | 67 ± 81 | 69 ± 71 | .40 | 14.9 | 14.0 | <.001 | 2.8 | 3.1 | .02 |
| 2018 | 1613 | 2969 | 63 ± 65 | 71 ± 72 | <.001 | 15.3 | 14.4 | <.001 | 3.1 | 3.1 | .85 |
| 2019 | 1674 | 2610 | 71 ± 74 | 80 ± 78 | <.001 | 15.0 | 14.0 | .01 | 3.1 | 3.1 | .53 |
| All Years | 4824 | 8154 | 67 ± 74 | 73 ± 74 | <.001 | 15.0 | 14.2 | <.001 | 3.0 | 3.1 | .12 |
Note: N = 14 863 reviews; 1571 reviews that had no comments were excluded, leaving 13 292 reviews included in the analysis.
a
Reviews received by women and men first authors: 632 reviews that had no gendered authors were excluded, leaving 12 660 reviews received by gendered authors.
b
Reviews given by women and men reviewers: 314 reviews that had no gendered reviewers were excluded, leaving 12 978 reviews given by gendered reviewers.