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Here's how competition makes peer review more unfair

  • Written by Stefano Balietti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northeastern University
imageWhat are the implications of peer review on competition in science?PROChristian Guthier, CC BY

A scientist can spend several months, in many cases even years, strenuously investigating a single research question, with the ultimate goal of making a contribution – little or big – to the progress of human knowledge.

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