either manuscripts or final products for evaluation<\/strong>. In the first case, the authors still had a chance to introduce changes to their documents. In the second case it was more about evaluating the final product and receiving inputs for the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAlthough we opened up all the possibilities, think tanks stick mainly to the usual suspects. We received mostly working papers (62%), book chapters (30%) and very few policy briefs (8%). We didn\u2019t receive proposals for review. Informal conversations with Executive Directors raised the concerns of sharing a proposal, and the possibility of the reviewer \u2018stealing\u2019 the idea, noting that time frames at the proposal stage are usually very short.<\/p>\n
Thematically, most of the papers received were on social issues such as health, education, poverty and inequality. Economic and fiscal issues were the second most relevant with two outliers: one on environmental policy and one on judicial matters.<\/p>\n
This is a very small sample of think tanks indeed. But it does open questions regarding the types of products think tanks produce and how they really differentiate themselves from universities and other knowledge producers. Although I wanted to test new spheres for peer review, in practice, think tanks still value the peer review process in its most traditional form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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