BACKGROUND: Peer review is used to determine what research is funded and published,
yet little is known about its effectiveness, and it is suspected that there may be biases. We …

Peer review is widely used to assess grant applications so that the highest ranked
applications can be funded. A number of studies have questioned the ability of peer review …

Background: Peer review decisions award an estimated> 95% of academic medical
research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be …

Objectives To examine whether the gender of applicants and peer reviewers and other
factors influence peer review of grant proposals submitted to a national funding agency …

Obtaining grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is increasingly
competitive, as funding success rates have declined over the past decade. To allocate …

OBJECTIVE: Peer review is the gold standard for evaluating scientific quality. Compared
with studies on inter-reviewer variability, research on panel evaluation is scarce. To …

This paper examines the peer review procedure of a national science funding organization
(Swiss National Science Foundation) by means of the three most frequently studied criteria …

Objective To review the literature on strategies implemented or identified to prevent or
reduce gender bias in peer review of research grants. Methods Studies of any type of …

Criteria are an essential component of any procedure for assessing merit. Yet, little is known
about the criteria peers use to assess grant applications. In this systematic review we …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: There is a persistent degree of uncertainty and
dissatisfaction with the peer review process underlining the need to validate the current …