Although a large number of studies have been published up to now on peer review in
science, only few of them employ a theory-guided approach. Most of the studies fail to …

This paper examines the peer review procedure of a national science funding organization
(Swiss National Science Foundation) by means of the three most frequently studied criteria …

Academic peer review is seriously undertheorized because peer review studies focus on
discovering and confirming phenomena, such as biases, and are much less concerned with …

Journal peer review lies at the heart of academic quality control. This article explores the
journal peer review process and seeks to examine how the reviewing process might itself …

There is a paucity of data in the literature concerning the validation of the grant application
peer review process, which is used to help direct billions of dollars in research funds …

The question of gender disparities in research funding, with female scientists less funded
than their male counterparts, originally emerged as part of the so-called “productivity …

Purpose—this paper aims to look at the Hawthorne effect in editorial peer review.
Design/methodology/approach—discusses the quality evaluation of refereed scholarly …

Objective To investigate methods and processes for timely, efficient and good quality peer
review of research funding proposals in health. Methods A two-stage evidence synthesis:(1) …

Peer review has become the gold standard in scientific publishing as a selection method
and a refinement scheme for research reports. However, despite its pervasiveness and …