Richard Nakamura, Ph.D. May 18, 2015 Improving Quality at CSR
Do highest quality peer review] –Meet needs of PI and Program communities –Quality measures –Accuracy of referral –Evaluations of peer review including its fairness –Support SROs and Reviewers Conduct peer review as efficiently as possible CSR Goals
Success Rate Fiscal Year Grant Success Rates FY 1978 – 2014
AppropriationAppropriation in 1998 Dollars (In Billions) NIH Program Level in Nominal Dollars and Constant 1998 Dollars, FY1998 – FY2014
Number of Applications Received by Fiscal Year
6 Note: Incomplete data for 2015/08 and 2015/10 Councils because applications are still coming in and meetings have not occurred Application Increase
Fellowship Application Trends
Danielle Li and Leila Agha This paper examines the success of peer-review panels in predicting the future quality of proposed research. We construct new data to track publication, citation, and patenting outcomes associated with more than 130,000 research project (R01) grants funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health from 1980 to We find that better peer-review scores are consistently associated with better research outcomes and that this relationship persists even when we include detailed controls for an investigator’s publication history, grant history, institutional affiliations, career stage, and degree types. A one–standard deviation improvement in peer-review scores among awarded grants is associated with 16% more citations, 8% more publications, 20% more high- impact publications, and 15% more follow-on patents. Science 24 April 2015: Vol. 348 no pp RESEARCH FUNDING Big names or big ideas: Do peer-review panels select the best science proposals? Science April 24, 2015
Danielle Li and Leila Agha: Big names or big ideas: Do peer-review panels select the best science proposals? Science 24 April 2015: Vol. 348 no pp Peer Review Scores Correlated with Publications and Citations
Residual Numbers of Publications/Citations and Peer Review Percentile Scores
US Science and Technology Future?
Israel 4.2 South Korea3.6 Finland3.5 Japan3.4 Sweden3.4 Germany2.9 Switzerland2.9 Denmark2.9 What Do these Countries Have in Common?
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