Impact of dual anonymous peer review on ESO telescope time allocations

F. Primas; T. Jerabkova; F. Patat; H. M. J. Boffin

doi:10.1117/12.3020740

25 July 2024 Impact of dual anonymous peer review on ESO telescope time allocations

F. Primas, T. Jerabkova, F. Patat, H. M. J. Boffin

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Proceedings Volume 13098, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems X; 130980H (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020740
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

In the last decade, some detailed analyses of peer-review schema applied to the evaluation of observing proposals showed that the outcome of these review processes were affected by significant biases, especially gender-related ones. Dual anonymous evaluations were identified as an important step to correct for the observed discrimination. Among the several improvements recently implemented in the front-end of ESO operational model (the so-called Phase1 segment, that includes the preparation, submission and evaluation of observing proposals), we have now been running dual anonymous reviews since a few years. Here, we present the first results of our analysis that compares observing proposal success rates as a function of the proposer’s gender and career status, before and after the introduction of dual anonymous reviews, and we evaluate the impact that this approach is having on the outcome of the process.

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F. Primas, T. Jerabkova, F. Patat, and H. M. J. Boffin "Impact of dual anonymous peer review on ESO telescope time allocations", Proc. SPIE 13098, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems X, 130980H (25 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020740

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