Funding agency’s reviewers were biased against scientists with novel ideas

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“In science … novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance.” So wrote Thomas Kuhn in his landmark The Structure of ... Pezzoni of the French national research agency CNRS, and Fabiana Visentin of Maastricht University.Why did grant reviewers take such a dim ...

Period29 Oct 2021

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  • TitleFunding agency’s reviewers were biased against scientists with novel ideas
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletScience.org
    Media typeOnline
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    Date29/10/21
    Description“In science … novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance.” So wrote Thomas Kuhn in his landmark The Structure of ... Pezzoni of the French national research agency CNRS, and Fabiana Visentin of Maastricht University.Why did grant reviewers take such a dim ...
    Producer/AuthorJeffrey Brainard
    URLhttps://www.science.org/content/article/funding-agency-s-reviewers-were-biased-against-scientists-novel-ideas
    PersonsFabiana Visentin
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Keywords

  • European Research Council
  • French national research agency CNRS
  • Funding agencies
  • Swiss foundation
  • applicants
  • applicants to forge
  • authors
  • bias against applications
  • breakthrough
  • citation metrics