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 …

Despite the surging interest in introducing lottery mechanisms into decision-making
procedures for science funding bodies, the discourse on funding-by-lottery remains …

The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to
handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There is little …

Introduction Allocation of research funds relies on peer review to support funding decisions,
and these processes can be susceptible to biases and inefficiencies. The aim of this work …

The speed with which COVID-19 vaccines were developed and their high performance
underlines how much society depends on the pace of scientific research and how effective …

This study developed and evaluated a brief training program for grant reviewers that aimed
to increase inter-rater reliability, rating scale knowledge, and effort to read the grant review …

Objective To investigate methods and processes for timely, efficient and good quality peer
review of research funding proposals in health. Methods A two-stage evidence synthesis:(1) …

Recent science funding policy scholars and practitioners have advocated for the use of
lotteries, or elements of random chance, as supplementations of traditional peer review for …

In response to increasing fatigue with the failings of the peer review system, granting
agencies are beginning to consider lotteries as an alternative. I argue that citizen review, in …

Innovations in decision-making practice for allocation of funds in health research are
emerging; however, it is not clear to what extent these are used. This study aims to better …