Peering at peer review revealed high degree of chance associated with funding of grant applications

NE Mayo, J Brophy, MS Goldberg, MB Klein… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: There is a persistent degree of uncertainty and
dissatisfaction with the peer review process underlining the need to validate the current …

Associations of topic-specific peer review outcomes and institute and center award rates with funding disparities at the National Institutes of Health

MS Lauer, J Doyle, J Wang, D Roychowdhury - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
A previous report found an association of topic choice with race-based funding disparities
among R01 applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health ('NIH') between 2011 …

Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender

A Kaatz, B Gutierrez, M Carnes - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Scientists strive to be objective in their peer review of grant applications and manuscript
submissions. Nevertheless, all humans are susceptible to biases in decision-making. To …

[HTML][HTML] Does a change in health research funding policy related to the integration of sex and gender have an impact?

J Johnson, Z Sharman, B Vissandjée, DE Stewart - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We analyzed the impact of a requirement introduced in December 2010 that all applicants to
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research indicate whether their research designs …

Evaluation of research proposals by peer review panels: broader panels for broader assessments?

R Abma-Schouten, J Gijbels… - Science and Public …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Panel peer review is widely used to decide which research proposals receive funding.
Through this exploratory observational study at two large biomedical and health research …

NIH peer review of grant applications for clinical research

TA Kotchen, T Lindquist, K Malik, E Ehrenfeld - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
ContextSupport of research to facilitate translation of scientific discoveries to the prevention
and treatment of human disease is a high priority for the US National Institutes of Health …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge and motivations of training in peer review: an international cross-sectional survey

JV Willis, J Ramos, KD Cobey, JY Ng, H Khan… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite having a crucial role in scholarly publishing, peer reviewers do not
typically require any training. The purpose of this study was to conduct an international …

[HTML][HTML] Teleconference versus face-to-face scientific peer review of grant application: effects on review outcomes

SA Gallo, AS Carpenter, SR Glisson - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Teleconferencing as a setting for scientific peer review is an attractive option for funding
agencies, given the substantial environmental and cost savings. Despite this, there is a …

Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications?

SE Hug, M Ochsner - Research Evaluation, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This study examines a basic assumption of peer review, namely, the idea that there is a
consensus on evaluation criteria among peers, which is a necessary condition for the …

[HTML][HTML] Peer review of grant applications: criteria used and qualitative study of reviewer practices

H Abdoul, C Perrey, P Amiel, F Tubach, S Gottot… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Peer review of grant applications has been criticized as lacking reliability.
Studies showing poor agreement among reviewers supported this possibility but usually …