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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 5: Agent-Based Modeling

SOE 5.2: Talk

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30–12:45, H45

An Agent-Based Model to Investigate Geder Bias in Peer Review — •Sophie Lake and Jens Christian Claussen — University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK

Fairness in the refereeing process is a challenging goal but essential to ensure the quality of the scientific publication landscape. Selfishness, various biases, friendship networks as well as time efficiency influence the behaviour of researchers when making decisions on refereeing manuscripts. A longstanding challenge is the under-representation of women in many scientific disciplines and therefore in editorial boards and referee pools. We build on a model by Thurner and Hanel (2011, EPJB 84:707) that introduced different referee strategies. Here we extend the model by gender-specific strategies, and use agent-based simulations to analyze the impact of evaluation bias, homophilic editors and friendship networks.

Keywords: Game Theory; Agent-based models; Gender Imbalance; Peer Review