Around 85% of researchers who applied for grants from a German funder have given the thumbs up to ‘distributed peer review’, a new process in which applicants are asked to review proposals by other ...

The Trump administration’s blocking of new grant awards via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has the potential to be a life and death decision. The fact is federal grants underlie U.S.

Just 11 U.S. universities received 25% of all the federal research funding awarded to universities and colleges in 2021. And of these top research-funded universities, nine of them are located on ...

The National Institutes of Health longstanding "payline" has helped everyone see the connection between the scientific peer review process and NIH grant funding decisions. What will the latest NIH ...

In a move projected to save the National Institutes of Health more than $65 million, the agency late last week announced a plan to centralize peer review of applications for grants and contracts under ...

The American Chemical Society updated eight of its policy statements in 2025. These statements reflect ACS’s official positions on important issues and provide a way to help address national and ...

Research funding agencies are battling a wave of AI-assisted applications. Countermeasures should not entrench existing power ...

After receiving my first independent NIH grant in 2017, I was asked to serve as a reviewer on study sections. Since then, I have reviewed hundreds of grants for federal agencies, including NIH.

Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. For 300 years or so after the creation of the scientific journals, those journals would unsystematically decide what to publish on ...