Around 85% of researchers who applied for grants from a German funder have given the thumbs up to ‘distributed peer review’, a new process in which applicants are asked to review proposals by other ...

A White House proposal would give political appointees, not scientific peer reviewers, the final say over federal research ...

Academic scientists, biotech executives and investors, and patient advocacy groups are sounding alarms over the Trump administration's plans to add political reviews to the process for making research ...

The Office of Management and Budget proposal would give political appointees greater authority over grant decisions and ...

The National Institutes of Health longstanding "payline" has helped everyone see the connection between the scientific peer review process and NIH grant funding decisions. What will the latest NIH ...

Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share ...

Just 11 U.S. universities received 25% of all the federal research funding awarded to universities and colleges in 2021. And of these top research-funded universities, nine of them are located on ...

Recently the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine each submitted ...

In a move projected to save the National Institutes of Health more than $65 million, the agency late last week announced a plan to centralize peer review of applications for grants and contracts under ...

For more than a dozen years, I served on federal scientific review panels. My colleagues were serious, conscientious, and deeply knowledgeable in their fields. But the process was also far less ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization representing a global community of more than 262,000 individuals across academia, industry, and government. As ...