“Studying grant decision-making: a linguistic analysis of review reports”, the paper which was granted the best paper award at the PEERE International Conference 2018 by Peter van den Besselaar, Ulf Sandström & Hélène Schiffbaenker has been published in Scientometrics. See here. Abstract. Peer and panel review are the dominant forms of grant decision-making, despite its serious weaknesses as shown by many studies. This paper contributes to the understanding of the…