Meritocracy Voting: Measuring the Unmeasurable

• Main Author: PHILLIPS, Peter C. B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Auditing peer review; Bibliometric data; Election; Fellowship; Measurement; Meritocracy; Peer review; Quantification; Subjective assessment; Voting; Econometrics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1842; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2841/viewcontent/MeritocracyVotingMeasuringUnmeasurable_2016.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Learned societies commonly carry out selection processes to add new fellows to an existing fellowship. Criteria vary across societies but are typically based on subjective judgments concerning the merit of individuals who are nominated for fellowships. These subjective assessments may be made by exi...