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 ...

It is important to consider such factors, discussed above, as type of R&D organization, type of assessment, and timescale of the assessment, so that the assessment of technical quality can be ...

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 ...