WHAT MAKES A GOOD SCIENTIST - DETERMINANTS OF PEER EVALUATION AMONG BIOLOGISTS

Authors
SONNERT G
Citation
G. Sonnert, WHAT MAKES A GOOD SCIENTIST - DETERMINANTS OF PEER EVALUATION AMONG BIOLOGISTS, Social studies of science, 25(1), 1995, pp. 35-55
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
History & Philosophy of Sciences","History & Philosophy of Sciences","History & Philosophy of Sciences
Journal title
Social studies of science → ACNP
ISSN journal
03063127
Volume
25
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
35 - 55
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-3127(1995)25:1<35:WMAGS->2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
This study explores the criteria by which biologists in the United Sta tes evaluate their peers' scientific performance. Six distinguished bi ology professors rated forty-two former National Science Foundation Po stdoctoral Fellows on the basis of the latter's CVs and bibliographies . The most powerful predictor of these quality judgements was the rate d scientist's annual productivity rate: this explained more than 40% o f the variance in the evaluators' judgements.