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Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does.

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peer review How science checks itself, and the case that the checking mostly does not work.

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  1. José Luis Ricón

    Engineer and writer at Nintil

    I have reviewed before the effectiveness of peer review at figuring out "what's good" in the context of grant awards, finding that peer review as currently practiced does substantially better than chance at predicting future impact, especially for the most impactful of the papers; but at the same time is is far from perfect, leaving plenty of variance unexplained.

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