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 …

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 …

One of the most frequently voiced criticisms of the peer review process is gender bias. In this
study we evaluated the grant peer review process (external reviewers' ratings, and board of …

Peer review serves a gatekeeper role, the final arbiter of what is valued in academia, but is
widely criticized in terms of potential biases—particularly in relation to gender. In this …

This study seeks to draw connections between the grant proposal peer-review and the
gender representation in research consortia. We examined the implementation of a multi …

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 …

Narrative reviews of peer review research have concluded that there is negligible evidence
of gender bias in the awarding of grants based on peer review. Here, we report the findings …

Peer review is widely used throughout academia, most notably in the publication of journal
articles and the allocation of research grants. Yet peer review has been subject to much …

Background One of the most important weaknesses of the peer review process is that
different reviewers' ratings of the same grant proposal typically differ. Studies on the inter …

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 …