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Top 10 NIH Peer Review Q&As
Video Source: NIH
Scientific Review Officers and other NIH officials answer the questions they get most often, including:
- What do you mean by “scientific premise or rigor”? (1:07)
- What is the difference between “significance” and “overall impact”? (2:18)
- When will I receive word on my application? (5:20)
- How does NIH guard against a single reviewer having undue influence? (6:25)
- I don’t like the review group you put my application into. What can I do? (7:49)
- I addressed concerns from my prior critiques and my score got worse. Why? (9:48)
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The webpage mentioned by Dr. Custer (nih.gov/impactandsig) does not exist!
The only webpage addressing this issue that I was able to find is:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer/guidelines_general/impact_significance.pdf
Dr. Reed states that “being competitors is NOT a compelling reason” to exclude a reviewer.
On the contrary, in the NIH instructions of the PHS Assignment Request Form, one can read:
Exclude reviewers. NIH policy allows you to list people who should not review your application, though your scientific review officer makes the call.
Limit your response to 1,000 characters.
Valid reasons include the following:
Competitor (if you believe the competitor would not give you a fair review).
Long-standing scientific disagreement.
Conflict of interest.
The link no longer works
Thanks for the heads up. This post has been updated with a new link. Looks like NIH updated their video.