Language bias in editorial desk rejection: evidence from a field audit
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Manuscripts identical but for the author's stated affiliation country showed a measurable difference in desk-rejection probability. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together with the code needed to reproduce every figure is deposited under a permissive licence. Limitations, including coverage gaps in non-English sources, are set out in the discussion.
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