I suspect that my submissions are often given more peer reviewers than my male counterparts, and I would like to know if I'm imagining it or not. The only time I have had fewer than three reviewers was when I contributed to a review article in which the first author was a man. I am not surprised when my submission is assigned to four reviewers, and a submission in the pipeline this year was given to five peer reviewers. Five is a lot, so I looked up the number of reviewers that journal typically assigns, and what I found indicated that they typically send a research report to 1-3 peer reviewers.
I don't want to get carried away by an assumption that this is a pink tax, so I thought I would ask around and see how things are for other people.
Hello Meghan Hibicke
Mine is usually 2 or 3 if I am an author and similar if I am a reviewer. Easy to say, of course, because I am male! Is this only for review articles? (I've never done one.) Or do you get it for other types of articles also?
Thanks for replying Joseph C Lee
I usually get 3 or 4 reviewers for both review articles and research reports. Anything in which I am the first author. 5 was a lot.
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