Committee peer review at an international research foundation: predictive validity and fairness of selection decisions on post-graduate fellowship applications

摘要: We investigated committee peer review for awarding long-term fellowships to post-graduate researchers as practised by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) — a foundation promotion of basic research in biomedicine. The most important aspect our study was investigate predictive validity procedure, i.e. whether achieves its aim select fellowship recipients best junior scientists. Our bibliometric analysis shows that this is indeed case and selection procedure thus highly valid. With regard fairness we analysed extent which foundation's Board Trustees' practice reviewing applications alphabetic order when making final decisions has an influence on they make. A statistically significant postulated bias variable could be observed, but effect size small. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.