TY - JOUR
AU - Liv Langfeldt
AB - 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.
BT - Research Evaluation
DA - 2006-04
DO - 10.3152/147154406781776039
IS - 1
N2 - 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.
PY - 2006
SP - 31
EP - 41
ST - The policy challenges of peer review
T2 - Research Evaluation
TI - The policy challenges of peer review: managing bias, conflict of interests and interdisciplinary assessments
UR - https://doi.org/10.3152/147154406781776039
VL - 15
Y2 - 2024-07-30
SN - 0958-2029
ER -