NIH panel to monitor peer review in action

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will set up an advisory committee of 17 university scientists and NIH officials who will direct the peer review applied to NIH grant applications and manage the Division of Research Grants' (DRG) activities. The panel will examine the functions of academic clinical research centers and deal with the training of new clinical researchers. It will study the progress of research and efficiency of DRG study sections.

Management, United States. National Institutes of Health, Peer review of research grant proposals

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Drawbacks of peer review

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The peer-review system assesses the quality of new publications, but its evaluations are inconsistent. Forty-five members of editorial boards were asked for their opinion of the journal's standard questionnaire. Thirty-one of them responded, and said they belieed that the rating was extreme and unreliable. The peer-review method was consequently rejected by new journals.

Analysis, Peer review

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Dangers of over-dependence on peer-reviewed publication

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Reliance on scientific journals is too great. The scientific community and others assume that what they read in such journals is of high quality, but although some papers are conclusive some are extremely controversial. Publication of information on the Internet will have an impact on this, but there are also dangers of distortion of facts through electronic publication.

Standards, Journalism, Scientific, Science journalism

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