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Kate Barnes

@k-barnes.bsky.social

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Graduate student at CU Boulder: Ph.D. Computer Science & MA Philosophy.

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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🎉 New paper (and data) on editorial & peer review at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. With a wonderful team! @samzhang.bsky.social, @nicklaberge.bsky.social, Quinten and @aaronclauset.bsky.social. 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Elite general science journals shape scientific discourse, public policy, and scientific careers. However, expectations of confidentiality in most editorial proceedings has limited efforts to understand and improve the review process. Here, we describe and release deidentified data on 110,303 manuscript submissions over 5 years at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. Analyzing evaluation dynamics across the initial editorial review and subsequent peer review stages, we find strong selective effects associated with higher institutional prestige, larger team size, and certain topics and countries. Corresponding authors who are men exhibit a small but significant advantage at Science, while authors based in China have a significant disadvantage. These associations are generally stronger in editorial review than in peer review, even as final editorial decisions correlate strongly with reviewer advice. These patterns highlight the complexity of multistage evaluations at elite journals and the importance of open data to better understand them.

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Kate Barnes @k-barnes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

1\ New paper out in FAccT 2026 @facct.bsky.social #FAccT2026 ! 🥳 Grateful to have worked with this team, and had the opportunity to combine my interests in fairness and the science of science. Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

Screenshot of the first page of our FAccT publication. Title: "Edge interventions can mitigate demographic and prestige disparities in the computer science coauthorship network." Authors: Kate Barnes, Mia Ellis-Einhorn, Carolina Chavez, Nayera Hasan, Mohammad Fanous, Blair D. Sullivan, Sorelle A. Friedler and Aaron Clauset. Affiliations: University of Colorado Boulder, Haverford College and University of Utah.

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