http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20183163
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Res. 2009 Jul;16(4):229-31. doi: 10.1080/08989620903065475.
The real cost of the NSERC peer review is less
than 5% of a proposed baseline grant.
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Roorda%20S%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=20183163>Roorda
S.
Source
Departement de Physique, Universite de Montréal,
Quebec, Canada. [email protected]
Abstract
A recent publication in this journal (Gordon and
Poulin, 2009) argues that the cost of the NSERC
peer review exceeds the cost of giving every
researcher a $30,000 baseline grant. However, the
authors overestimated the ratio of peer review
expenses to baseline grant cost by a factor of
26. The real cost of peer review is less than 5% of the baseline grant amount.
