Time-consuming tasks and research competition --- Thank you Katharina for you answer, I really appreciate it. In my field (cultural heritage protection/illicit trafficking of cultural property) reviews are very rare (I found one from 2011!), maybe in part because of the time they take as you explained and maybe in part because of the high competition to have few existing funding and therefore the need to publish as much as possible individual papers on the latest research findings. I think that too, from a certain point of view, is part of an existing gap between researchers and decision makers: we don't really know what the other needs to act effectively, in this particular case the need for results and data are presented in a productive way for their inclusion in policy development.

Source author: Aura Fossati aura.fossati@gmail.com