Would you recommend a Nobel prize winner be published?
Imagine you receive a paper to review for a journal, and the author’s name jumps out at you as that of a Nobel prizewinner. Would you be more inclined to recommend the paper for publication than if, say, the author was a novice? Research published in September says yes: by a factor of six. Read my story on the astonishing sway of ' status bias ', and how to defeat it: