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The Review Process at PSPB: Correlates of Interreviewer Agreement and Manuscript Acceptance

Ohio State University, petty.1{at}osu.edu

Monique A. Fleming

Ohio State University

Leandre R. Fabrigar

Queen’s University

Reviewer agreement and the predictors of publication judgments were investigated for first-submission manuscripts to the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin during a 3 1/2—year period (i.e., one editor’s tenure). Among the findings were the following: Reviewers’ judgments of manuscripts were multirather than unidimensional; reviewer agreement about methodology and overall recommendation was greater among high-prestige than mixed-prestige reviewers; authors with high prestige and authors with low professional experience submitted longer manuscripts than their counterparts; author prestige and text length were positively related to publication judgments of reviewers and editors; and author gender was related to editor’s decisions with female authors receiving less favorable decisions than males. The possible mediation of these findings and their implications for understanding the peer-review process in personality and social psychology are discussed.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 2, 188-203 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167299025002005


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