Objective During peer review, submitted manuscripts are scrutinised by independent experts
to assist journal editors in their decision-making and to help improve the quality of articles. In …

Introduction Although peer-review for journal submission, grant-applications and conference
submissions has been called 'a counter-stone of science', and even 'the gold standard for …

There is a paucity of data in the literature concerning the validation of the grant application
peer review process, which is used to help direct billions of dollars in research funds …

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 …

Objective. To assess the consistency of an index of the scientific quality of research
overviews. Design. Agreement was measured among nine judges, each of whom assessed …

Clinical and experimental biomedical research provides the foundation for advances in
medicine, health, and the welfare of the public. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the …

Study Design, Publication Outcome, and Funding of Research Presented at International
Congresses on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication | Academic Medicine | JAMA | JAMA …

Peer reviewed journals throughout the world have adopted similar review practices in an
effort to select the best among submitted manuscripts and to improve their quality before …

Much of what is researched is never published. This would not be of great concern if the
selection of what we read would occur irrespective of study outcomes. Unfortunately, the …

An East European economist once observed that'you don't try to cross over a chasm in two
leaps', meaning that the social and economic transformations of those nations might best be …