In the first wave of the experiment, we sent thirteen manuscripts back to their same journal with cover letters written on our fake stationary and asked the editors (all but one of whom were the same editors who had made the decision to publish them previously) that "our" papers be considered for publication, without hinting that they had already been published or were part of an experiment looking into claims of editorial bias against authors at lower-status institutions. The second part of the experiment would look at previously-rejected papers to see if they would be accepted when the author was changed from an unknown person to an eminent scholar.