Abstract:One of the main critiques of academic peer review is that inter-rater reliability (IRR) among reviewers is low. We examine an under-investigated factor possibly contributing to low IRR, reviewers’ diversity in their topic-criteria mapping (TC-mapping for short). It refers to differences among reviewers pertaining to which topics they choose to emphasize in their evaluations, and how they map those topics onto various evaluation criteria. In this paper we look at the review process of grant proposals in one fun… Show more
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