Table 2 Mixed-effects cumulative-link model on referee recommendations

From: The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals

Fixed effects

Estimate

Std. error

z-value

p-value

Open review

0.026

0.120

0.214

0.831

Status: Other

−0.211

0.089

−2.376

0.018

Degree: Dr

−0.064

0.046

−1.405

0.160

Gender: Male

0.009

0.080

0.106

0.915

Gender: Uncertain

0.089

0.088

1.011

0.312

Year

−0.023

0.013

−1.797

0.072

Open review × Status: Other

0.639

0.123

5.179

<0.001

Open review × Status: Dr

0.076

0.066

1.147

0.251

Open review × Gender: Male

0.053

0.105

0.510

0.610

Open review × Gender: Uncertain

−0.143

0.116

−1.238

0.216

Reject|Major revision

−0.933

0.125

−7.450

<0.001

Major revision|Minor revision

0.594

0.125

4.749

<0.001

Minor revision|Accept

2.502

0.128

19.579

<0.001

Std. dev. of random effects:

Submission (intercept)

0.733

   

Journal (intercept)

0.195

   

No.

18,523.0

   

Log likelihood

23,843.5

   

AIC

47,716.9

   
  1. The reference class for the referees’ status is “Professor”, while for gender is “Female”. Only observations including completed reviews were considered