The policy challenges of peer review: managing bias, conflict of interests and interdisciplinary assessments

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Tracking the evolution of waste recycling research using overlay maps of science. (2011, result): “In summary, in contrast to the numerous qualitative studies pointing to clear bias against IDR in evaluation (Travis and Collins, 1991; Langfeldt, 2006), there are only a few quantitative studies on the subject and these have produced ambiguous and somewhat contradictory results.”
Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance, Novelty, and Resource Allocation in Science (2016, background): “The shorter and more standardized proposal format also allowed us to minimize the extent to which submission format shaped evaluations (Langfeldt 2006).”
How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management (2012, result): “In summary, in contrast to the many qualitative studies pointing to clear bias against IDR in evaluation (Travis and Collins, 1991; Langfeldt, 2006), the few quantitative studies on the subject have produced ambiguous and contradictory results.”