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The Power of Peer Review on Transdisciplinary Discovery (2019)

Mäkinen, Elina I. (Author)

Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 6
Pages: 1020-1047

DOI: 10.1177/0162243918822741

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918822741

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Technoscience; science and technology studies Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge Research Science Medicine Unconventional science Peer review 21st century

This study examines the tension between the academic evaluation system and the development of unconventional research agendas. While scholars have studied the evaluation of research that crosses disciplinary boundaries from the perspective of peer reviewers, they have paid comparatively little attention to the experiences of the performers of unconventional science. This study asks how researchers develop unconventional research agendas to address a long-standing health problem and, in the process, make sense of the actions of a site visit committee organized to advise a foundation funding the project. This study develops a process narrative on the development of a specific transdisciplinary team proposing to study premature birth. The findings show that when the performers and the evaluators of unconventional science developed competing understandings of the research agenda, transdisciplinary discovery became limited as a particular research topic became taboo. Yet, the study also reveals how the performers of unconventional science challenged the power of the site visit committee by making it seem as though they followed the committee’s decisions. These findings raise questions about the role of private foundations as funders of academic research and the suitability of traditional evaluation procedures for assessing transdisciplinary discovery.

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