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 …

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 …

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 …

The time-honored mechanism of allocating funds based on ranking of proposals by scientific
peer review is no longer effective, because review panels cannot accurately stratify …

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 …

Most funding agencies rely on peer review to evaluate grant applications and proposals, but
research into the use of this process by funding agencies has been limited. Here we explore …

Using a novel combination of methods and data sets from two national funding agency
contexts, this study explores whether review sentiment can be used as a reliable proxy for …

We have limited understanding of why reviewers tend to strongly disagree when scoring the
same research proposal. Thus far, research that explored disagreement has focused on the …

Research often fails to be translated into applications because of lack of financial support.
The Proof of Concept (PoC) funding scheme from the European Research Council (ERC) …

In Part 1 of this Perspective, I share my thoughts on several basic principles of scientific peer
review for early career-stage investigators. I begin by defining scientific peer review and its …