What works for peer review and decision-making in research funding: a realist synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Allocation of research funds relies on peer review to support funding decisions, and these processes can be susceptible to biases and inefficiencies. The aim of this work was to determine which past interventions to peer review and decision-making have worked to improve research funding practices, how they worked, and for whom.

Methods

Realist synthesis of peer-review publications and grey literature reporting interventions in peer review for research funding.

Results

We analysed 96 publications and 36 website sources. Sixty publications enabled us to extract stakeholder-specific context-mechanism-outcomes configurations (CMOCs) for 50 interventions, which formed the basis of our synthesis. Shorter applications, reviewer and applicant training, virtual fu

SUBMITTER: Recio-Saucedo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8894828 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature