# kaal:claim:3808852-004

**Claim.** Peer review exacerbates publication bias and can produce a cartelization of knowledge, because non-conforming innovative ideas may not receive full recognition and new findings that threaten existing hierarchies are delayed or denied recognition.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> The use of peer reviews can further exacerbate these effects and can result in forms of cartelization of knowledge because non- conforming innovative ideas may not get full recognition.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), II. Decentralization of Science, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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**Failure mode.** cartelization of knowledge  (family: innovation-chilling)

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, institutional-design, innovation

**Keywords.** peer-review, cartelization-of-knowledge, scientific-hierarchy, innovation-suppression

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