title: Reviewing Peer Review at the NIH.
abstract: Recent reports suggest that peer reviews of National Institutes of Health grant applications are at best imprecise predictors of research projects' scientific impact. But these findings may not mean that peer review is failing.
authors.affiliation: From the Office of Extramural Research (M.S.L.) and the Center for Scientific Review (R.N.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lauer
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000639:trends; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States