Scientometrics
Volume/Issue:
Volume 74: Issue 2
Persistent nepotism in peer-review
Authors:
Ulf Sandström Linköping University Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture 58183 Lingköping Sweden

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Martin Hällsten Stockholm University Department of Sociology & Swedish Institute for Social Research Stockholm Sweden

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Pages:
175–189
Online Publication Date:
03 Dec 2007
Publication Date:
01 Feb 2008
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-0211-3
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Abstract  

In a replication of the high-profile contribution by Wennerås and Wold on grant peer-review, we investigate new applications processed by the medical research council in Sweden. Introducing a normalisation method for ranking applications that takes into account the differences between committees, we also use a normalisation of bibliometric measures by field. Finally, we perform a regression analysis with interaction effects. Our results indicate that female principal investigators (PIs) receive a bonus of 10% on scores, in relation to their male colleagues. However, male and female PIs having a reviewer affiliation collect an even higher bonus, approximately 15%. Nepotism seems to be a persistent problem in the Swedish grant peer review system.

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0138-9130
Online ISSN:
1588-2861

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