Barely Significant
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Peer reviews of peer reviews: A randomized controlled trial and other experiments.

PLoS One · 2025 · PMC11964232 · PMID 40173178

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a strong trendno p-value reported
While meta-reviewers, reviewers and external reviewers do not show a strong trend in how the positivity of review score correlates with review quality assessments, for authors there is a clear positive trend with reviews recommending strong accepts receiving higher evaluations than reviews recommending strong rejects.

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