McLeish, Tom orcid.org/0000-0002-2025-0299 and Strang, Veronica (2016) Evaluating interdisciplinary research:The elephant in the peer-reviewers’ room. Palgrave Communications. 16055.
Abstract
We review a selection of published reports on the evaluation and wider peer-review of interdisciplinary research (IDR), drawing on an in-depth examination of a range of interdisciplinary projects and the work of a UK-based working group of funders and researchers. Our aim is to elucidate best practice. We focus the study on integrative, interdisciplinary projects, rather than those at the level of “multidisciplinary dialogue”. Five areas of evaluation (publishing, research grants, careers, IDR centres, institutions) demonstrate both commonality and difference in the task of measuring added value in IDR collaborations. We find that, although single-discipline peer review processes are poorly suited to address IDR, a framework that starts with the assumption that IDR is a fundamental academic research practice is effective for single-discipline evaluation as well. This article is published as part of a collection on interdisciplinarity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2018 11:50 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2025 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.55 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1057/palcomms.2016.55 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136955 |