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NIH Peer Review: Scored Review Criteria and Overall Impact

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest source of funding for biomedical research in the world. Funding decisions are made largely based on the outcome of a peer review process that is intended to provide a fair, equitable, timely, and unbiased review of the quality, scientific merit,...

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Autores principales: Lindner, Mark D., Vancea, Adrian, Chen, Mei-Ching, Chacko, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27239158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214015582049
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description The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest source of funding for biomedical research in the world. Funding decisions are made largely based on the outcome of a peer review process that is intended to provide a fair, equitable, timely, and unbiased review of the quality, scientific merit, and potential impact of the research. There have been concerns about the criteria reviewers are using, and recent changes in review procedures at the NIH now make it possible to conduct an analysis of how reviewers evaluate applications for funding. This study examined the criteria and overall impact scores recorded by assigned reviewers for R01 grant applications. The results suggest that all the scored review criteria, including innovation, are related to the overall impact score. Further, good scores are necessary on all five scored review criteria, not just the score for research methodology, in order to achieve a good overall impact score.
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spelling pubmed-48821202016-06-16 NIH Peer Review: Scored Review Criteria and Overall Impact Lindner, Mark D. Vancea, Adrian Chen, Mei-Ching Chacko, George Am J Eval Articles The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest source of funding for biomedical research in the world. Funding decisions are made largely based on the outcome of a peer review process that is intended to provide a fair, equitable, timely, and unbiased review of the quality, scientific merit, and potential impact of the research. There have been concerns about the criteria reviewers are using, and recent changes in review procedures at the NIH now make it possible to conduct an analysis of how reviewers evaluate applications for funding. This study examined the criteria and overall impact scores recorded by assigned reviewers for R01 grant applications. The results suggest that all the scored review criteria, including innovation, are related to the overall impact score. Further, good scores are necessary on all five scored review criteria, not just the score for research methodology, in order to achieve a good overall impact score. SAGE Publications 2015-04-29 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4882120/ /pubmed/27239158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214015582049 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27239158
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