Grant Application Review: The Case of Transparency
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s (or lay abstracts)Yes Impact statementsYes Full proposals (funded only)No* Names of external reviewers and scientific review board membersYes, in aggregated form, following the selection process Detailed (external) reviewsNo* Review summaries of failed proposalsNo Review summaries of funded proposalsYes Ranking of proposalsYes, only for funded proposals Funding budget granted to projectsYes Call success rateYes Final reportsYes *Starred items may be considered as radical transparency measures; at this time we deem it premature to recommend their open publication by default but wouldwelcome small-scale experimentation in this area.doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002010.t003 PLOS Biology | www.plosbiology.org5December 2014 | Volume 12 | Issue 12 | e1002010 20. Masum H, Rao A, Good BM, Todd MH,Edwards AM, et al. (2013) Ten Simple Rulesfor Cultivating Open Science and CollaborativeR&D.; PLoS Comput Biol 9: e1003244.doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.100324421. OECD (2013) Main Science and TechnologyIndicators 2013. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/msti-v2013-2-en. Accessed 27 October 2014.22. van Bekkum JE, Hilton S (2014) UK researchfunding bodies’ views towards public partici-pation in health-related research decisions:an exploratory study. BMC Health ServRes 14: 318. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-31823. Global Research Council . http://www.globalresearchcouncil.org/24. (2013) Reviewer Index: Volumes 193, 194, 195January–December 2013. Genetics 195: 1423–1427.25. Merton RK (1986) The Matthew effect in science.The reward and communication systems ofscience are considered. Science 159: 56.26. Kumar AH (2014) Open review system: The newtrend in scientific reviewing to improve trans-parency and overcome biasness. J Nat Sci BiolMed 5: 231–232. doi:10.4103/0976-9668.13613427. van Noorden R (2014) Online collaboration:Scientists and the social network. Nature 512:126–129. doi:10.1038/512126a28. Shanahan DR, Olsen BR (2014) Opening peer-review: the democracy of science. J Negat ResultsBiomed 13: 2. doi:10.1186/1477-5751-13-2. PLOS Biology | www.plosbiology.org6December 2014 | Volume 12 | Issue 12 | e1002010
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