An experimental study of simulated grant peer review: Gender differences and psychometric characteristics of proposal scores.

ABSTRACT: Peer review is a decisive factor in selecting research grant proposals for funding. The usefulness of peer review depends in part on the agreement of multiple reviewers' judgments of the same proposal, and on each reviewer's consistency in judging proposals. Peer reviewers are also instructed to disregard characteristics that are not among the evaluation criteria. However, for example, the gender identity-of the investigator or reviewer-may be associated with differing evaluations. This experiment sought to characterize the psychometric properties of peer review among 605 experienced peer reviewers and to examine possible differences in peer review judgments based on peer reviewer and investigator gender. Participants evaluated National Institutes of Health-style primary reviewers' overall

SUBMITTER: Schmaling KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11651561 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature