  Many contemporary research funding instruments and research policies aim for
excellence at the level of individual scientists, teams or research programmes.
Good bibliometric approximations of related specialties could be useful for
instance to help assign reviewers to applications. This paper reports findings
on the usability of reviewer suggestions derived from a recently developed
specialty approximation method combining key sources, title words, authors and
references (Rons, 2018). Reviewer suggestions for applications for Senior
Research Fellowships were made available to the evaluation coordinators. Those
who were invited to review an application showed a normal acceptance rate, and
responses from experts and coordinators contained no indications of mismatched
scientific focus. The results confirm earlier indications that this specialty
approximation method can successfully support tasks in research management.
