TY - JOUR
AU - G.D.L. Travis
AU - Harold Maurice Collins
AB - Peer review of grant applications, it has been suggested, might be distorted by what is popularly termed old boyism, cronyism, or particularism. We argue that the existing debate emphasizes the more uninteresting aspects of the peer review system and that the operation of old boyism, as currently understood would have little effect on the overall direction of science. We identify a phenomenon of cognitive particularism, which we consider to be more important than the institutional cronyism analyzed in previous studies. We illustrate with material drawn from observation of grant-awarding commit tees of the (British) Science and Engineering Research CounciL In the concluding discussion, we explore some of the possible implications for the peer review system.
BT - Science, Technology, & Human Values
DA - 1991-07
DO - 10.1177/016224399101600303
IS - 3
LA - en
N2 - Peer review of grant applications, it has been suggested, might be distorted by what is popularly termed old boyism, cronyism, or particularism. We argue that the existing debate emphasizes the more uninteresting aspects of the peer review system and that the operation of old boyism, as currently understood would have little effect on the overall direction of science. We identify a phenomenon of cognitive particularism, which we consider to be more important than the institutional cronyism analyzed in previous studies. We illustrate with material drawn from observation of grant-awarding commit tees of the (British) Science and Engineering Research CounciL In the concluding discussion, we explore some of the possible implications for the peer review system.
PY - 1991
SP - 322
EP - 341
ST - New Light on Old Boys
T2 - Science, Technology, & Human Values
TI - New Light on Old Boys: Cognitive and Institutional Particularism in the Peer Review System
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/016224399101600303
VL - 16
Y2 - 2022-12-07
SN - 0162-2439
ER -