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 …

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: 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There has been a surge of interest in research integrity over the last decade, with a wide
range of studies investigating the prevalence of questionable research practices (QRPs) …

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 …

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 …