Citations, citation indicators, and research quality: An overview of basic concepts and theories

DW Aksnes, L Langfeldt, P Wouters - Sage Open, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the
research system. Usually, citations are assumed to reflect the impact of the research or its …

[HTML][HTML] What do we know about grant peer review in the health sciences?

S Guthrie, I Ghiga, S Wooding - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Peer review decisions award an estimated> 95% of academic medical
research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be …

Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation

CY Chen, SS Kahanamoku, A Tripati, RA Alegado… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased over
the past decade. Here, we investigate data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a …

The dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism: Navigating our path forward.

JM Jones - School psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the way of life for humans all
around the world. As the consequences continue to be revealed, it has been abundantly …

Challenges, experiments, and computational solutions in peer review

NB Shah - Communications of the ACM, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Challenges, experiments, and computational solutions in peer review Page 1 76
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JUNE 2022 | VOL. 65 | NO. 6 review articles IMA GER YB Y …

Scientific autonomy, public accountability, and the rise of “peer review” in the Cold War United States

M Baldwin - Isis, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
This essay traces the history of refereeing at specialist scientific journals and at funding
bodies and shows that it was only in the late twentieth century that peer review came to be …

Reviewergpt? an exploratory study on using large language models for paper reviewing

R Liu, NB Shah - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.00622, 2023 - arxiv.org
Given the rapid ascent of large language models (LLMs), we study the question:(How) can
large language models help in reviewing of scientific papers or proposals? We first conduct …

NIH peer review: Criterion scores completely account for racial disparities in overall impact scores

EA Erosheva, S Grant, MC Chen, MD Lindner… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Previous research has found that funding disparities are driven by applications' final impact
scores and that only a portion of the black/white funding gap can be explained by …

Co-existing notions of research quality: A framework to study context-specific understandings of good research

L Langfeldt, M Nedeva, S Sörlin, DA Thomas - Minerva, 2020 - Springer
Notions of research quality are contextual in many respects: they vary between fields of
research, between review contexts and between policy contexts. Yet, the role of these co …

Peer review or lottery? A critical analysis of two different forms of decision-making mechanisms for allocation of research grants

L Roumbanis - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
At present, peer review is the most common method used by funding agencies to make
decisions about resource allocation. But how reliable, efficient, and fair is it in practice? The …