Two dogmas of peer-reviewism

References

• Boudreau, Kevin J. , Eva C. Guinan , Karim R. Lakhani , and Christoph Riedl . 2016. “Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science.” Management Science 62 (10): 2765–2783.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole, Stephen , Jonathan Cole , and Gary A Simon . 1981. “Chance and Consensus in Peer Review.” Science 214: 881–886.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fang, Ferric C. , and Arturo Casadevall . 2016. “Research Funding: the Case for a Modified Lottery.” mBio 7 (2): 1–7.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Franssen, Thomas , Wout Scholten , Laurens K. Hessels , and Sarah de Rijcke . 2018. “The Drawbacks of Project Funding for Epistemic Innovation: Comparing Institutional Affordances and Constraints of Different Types of Research Funding.” Minerva 56 (1): 11–33.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gross, Kevin , and Carl T. Bergstrom . 2019. “Contest Models Highlight Inherent Inefficiencies of Scientific Funding Competitions.” PloS Biology 17 (1): e3000065.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hayes, Matthew , and James Hardcastle . 2019. Grant Review in Focus . London: Publons.
   Google Scholar
• Merton, Robert K. 1973. The Sociology of Science . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pier, Elizabeth L. , Markus Brauer , Amarette Filut , Anna Kaatz , Joshua Raclaw , Mitchell J. Nathan , Cecilia E. Ford , and M. Molly Carnes . 2018. “Low Agreement among Reviewers Evaluating the Same NIH Grant Applications.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (12): 2952–2957.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reinhart, Martin , and Cornelia Schendzielorz . 2020. “The Lottery in Babylon – On the Role of Chance in Scientific Success.” Journal of Responsible Innovation . doi:10.1080/23299460.2020.1806429.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roumbanis, Lambros. 2019. “Peer Review or Lottery? A Critical Analysis of two Different Forms of Decision-Making Mechanisms for Allocation of Research Grants.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 44 (6): 994–1019.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sauder, Michael. 2020. “A Sociology of Luck.” Sociological Theory 38 (3): 193–216.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sloman, Aaron. 2014. “How to Select Research Proposals Less Wastefully: Use a Sensibly Designed, Relatively Inexpensive, Dynamic, Weighted Lottery.” http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/lottery.html.
   Google Scholar
• Times Higher Education . 2019. “Is Paid Research Time a Vanishing Privilege for Modern Academics?” https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/paid-research-time-vanishing-privilege-modern-academics.
   Google Scholar
• Travis, G. D. L. , and H. M. Collins . 1991. “New Light on Old Boys: Cognitive and Institutional Particularism in the Peer Review System.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 16 (3): 322–341.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar