Natures Correspondence items are reviewed only by the editors. To investigate whether editorial bias towards internationally renowned correspondents might be at play in selecting candidates for publication, we analysed the scientific status of Correspondence authors published in 2014. We used the following pointers to gauge author reputation: faculty member in one of the world's top 100 universities ; authorship of Nature or Science publications; high h index. We classed correspondents as established scholars if they fulfilled any or all of these criteria.
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