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• Gordon, R. & B.J. Poulin (2009), "Cost of the NSERC Science Grant Peer Review System Exceeds the Cost of Giving Every Qualified Researcher a Baseline Grant", Accountability in Research 16 (1): 13–40, DOI:10.1080/08989620802689821 ^[e]

Suggests, based on a study of the costs of peer review at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, that innovation could be stimulated by avoiding peer review for grants at the initial stages stages of research.

Received lots of discussion in the blogosphere

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/04/eliminate_peer-review_of_basel.php http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/04/why_eliminate_the_peer-review.php http://friendfeed.com/e/9a031a63-9620-410a-95ad-0bccd31e944d/Eliminate-peer-review-of-baseline-grants/ http://friendfeed.com/e/b7c98571-f0e6-40cb-8769-b18af1bca476/Follow-up-on-NSERC-study-possibility-to-put-the/ http://genomicron.blogspot.com/2009/04/bad-argument-against-baseline-funding.html http://genomicron.blogspot.com/2009/04/nserc-peer-review-costs-more-than.html http://harmsandcompany.com/main/2009/04/08/economics-of-peer-review-at-nserc/ http://harmsandcompany.com/main/2009/04/13/pernicious-economics/ http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2009/04/applying-to-nserc-everyone-gets-grant.html http://ways.org/en/blogs/2009/apr/09/research_grant_systems_that_encourage_innovation http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/15/workfare-for-scientists-cheaper-and-more-productive/

• Spier, R. (2002), "The history of the peer-review process", Trends Biotechnol 20 (8): 357–8, DOI:10.1016/S0167-7799(02)01985-6
• Campanario, J.M. (1996), "Have referees rejected some of the most-cited articles of all times?", Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47 (4): 302–310
• Judson, H. F. (1994), "Structural transformations of the sciences and the end of peer review", JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 272 (2): 92–4, DOI:10.1001/jama.272.2.92
• Burnham, J. C. (1990), "The evolution of editorial peer review", JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 263 (10): 1323–9, DOI:10.1001/jama.263.10.1323
• Ellsberg, Daniel (1961), "Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms", Quarterly Journal of Economics 75 (4): 643–669, DOI:10.2307/1884324 ^[e]

Introduces the Ellsberg paradox, a phenomenon studied in decision theory and relevant, for instance, for risk assessment during peer review of research grant proposals.