Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review
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چکیده
The purpose of grant peer review is to identify the most excellent and promising research projects. However, sociologists science STS scholars have shown that tends promote solid low-risk projects at expense more original innovative often come with higher risk. It has also been process affected by significant measures chance. Against this background, aim study theorize notions academic judgment agonistic chance, present analyze situations in which expert reviewers are faced challenge trying decide proposals select when there strong disagreement. empirical analysis based on ethnographic observations ten panel groups Swedish Research Council areas natural engineering sciences. By focusing disagreement, provides a in-depth understanding how chance creeps into becomes part consensus created.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Science, Technology, & Human Values
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0162-2439', '1552-8251']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211026016