What José Luis Ricón thinks about hiring

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Engineer and writer at Nintil, where he has spent years reading the empirical literature on how science is funded and organised — grant peer review, funding lotteries, whether ideas are getting harder to find — and reporting what the evidence does and does not support.

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1. 8 Jan 2021

   Our readingGood scientists can be shortlisted from their publication record, leaving human reviewers only the job of choosing among them.

   Their wordsThis is a fortunate conclusion, because it means that it's possible to use bibliometrics to select a candidate set of sufficiently good scientists, and then use human reviewers to select among them.

   ↗Fund people, not projects II: Does pre-grant peer review work?nintil.com