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NIH Examines Peer Review
Peer review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is getting an in-depth look, with the official goal of “optimizing its efficiency and effectiveness, and to ensure that the NIH will be able to continue
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More on Peer Review
A Dissident View ‘How Can One Budget for a Discovery?’ Excerpted from: “Peer Review: The Holy Office of Modern Science,” by Maciej Henneberg, Natural Science, February 20, 1997. “The peer review of grants has its
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Sitting in Judgment: Myths and Realities of Peer Review
It’s burdensome, it’s time-devouring, it plays havoc with your life and your research, it stifles innovation, it over-values flaws and undervalues potential, and the pay is somewhere between paltry and nonexistent. Why in the world
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A Chance to Put More Punch in Peer Review
If they act by October 1, psychologists have a chance to influence a series of changes in peer review procedures that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to try out in the 1997 fiscal
