CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflict of interest. DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT The code supporting the analyses presented in this study is publicly available at https://github.com/wangxueying149/NationalHeterogeneityAndDisparityInAcademicGatekeeping. Supporting Information Filename Description asi70125-sup-0001-Supinfo.docxWord 2007 document , 669.5 KB Data S1. Peer review data. Data S2. National political, economic, and cultural conditions. Data S3. Country status coding.