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Nature 420, 16 (7 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/420016b

Open Innovation Challenges

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Peer review to select academic job applicants

Esteban Fernández-Juricic1, Wladimir J. Alonso1 & Cynthia Schuck-Paim1

  1. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

Assessing the quality of candidates for academic positions has been the subject of controversy. Problems include nepotism and inbreeding, lack of impartiality among committee members — as M.