The First Step is to Acknowledge There is a Problem

I don't know if anyone's done a study of list crawl (sprawl, migration, something), but that's how I got on the "NIH Update/Newsletter" list. The spring Newsletter features their "review of peer review." Their Implementation Plan Report sounds like good applied common sense. I'm not sure how well it will be received. The guidelines themselves would actually seem to apply to any peer-review process (including publishing), not just applications for NIH funding.

(Though I have heard some complaints about the review process, most of the complaints seem to be about the application process itself. No word in this newsletter about reforming the forms.)