Background: Peer review decisions award an estimated> 95% of academic medical
research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be …

Despite the surging interest in introducing lottery mechanisms into decision-making
procedures for science funding bodies, the discourse on funding-by-lottery remains …

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically
omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the …

Psychology has a WEIRD problem. It is overly reliant on participants from Western,
Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Over the last decade this problem …

Abstract Background The Health Research Council of New Zealand is the first major
government funding agency to use a lottery to allocate research funding for their Explorer …

The bold idea of random grant allocation is heatedly discussed as an alternative to peer
review. The debate centers on advantages and disadvantages of the established measures …

Abstract In 2013 the Health Research Council of New Zealand began a stream of funding
titled 'Explorer Grants', and in 2017 changes were introduced to the funding mechanisms of …

This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models
are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed …

There are now several proposals for introducing random elements into the process of
funding allocation for research, and some initial implementation of this policy by funding …

Using peer review to assess the validity of research proposals has always had its fair share
of critics, including a more-than-fair-share of scholars. The debate about this method of …