Authors and reviewers who suffer from confirmatory bias

Scientometrics

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1377-1395

  Garcia J A ^a   Rodriguez Sánchez, Rosa ^a   Fdez Valdivia, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian authors; Bayesian reviewers; Confirmatory bias; Online tool; Overconfidence; Peer review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980034108     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2079-y     Document Type: Review

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