@article{3556,
  author = {Liv Langfeldt},
  title = {The policy challenges of peer review: managing bias, conflict of interests and interdisciplinary assessments},
  abstract = {Characteristics and challenges of peer review are elucidated from three different perspectives: a social dynamics perspective defining peer review as an important control mechanism in the research community; an uncertainty perspective focusing on the inherent uncertainty in judging research quality: and an organisational perspective focusing on the effects of different ways of organising peer review. Findings from a broad set of empirical studies are used. Peer review often has some conservative and risk-minimising aspects, which may disfavour interdisciplinary and non-conventional research. When the aim is to actively promote interdisciplinary or other kinds of non-conventional research, the involved peer-review system consequently needs to be adjusted to a more risk-taking mode.},
  year = {2006},
  journal = {Research Evaluation},
  volume = {15},
  pages = {31-41},
  month = {2006-04},
  issn = {0958-2029},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3152/147154406781776039},
  doi = {10.3152/147154406781776039},
}