ALT BMJ’s patient and public reviewers hold diverse views on reviewer remuneration, highlighting the importance of providing flexible, optional incentive choices to accommodate varying individual needs, values, and preferences.

ALT BMJ’s patient and public reviewers hold diverse views on reviewer remuneration, highlighting the importance of providing flexible, optional incentive choices to accommodate varying individual needs, values, and preferences.

ALT In the spring 2022 CIHR Project Grant Competition, equalization increased the number of health research grants awarded and the funding success rate for early career researcher and female principal applicants, and for applications submitted in French.

ALT The Research Excellence Framework (REF), a UK-wide funding exercise that assesses higher education institutions (HEIs) on the excellence of their research, includes research environment as part of the elements it assesses. To identify indicators that may be associated with positive research environments, researchers conducted a qualitative analysis of environment statements submitted to REF 2021.1, sampling 34 four-star statements drawn from different units of assessment (ie, academic disciplines) available openly on the REF website.

ALT Open peer review reports were longer than traditional unpublished reports, with the greatest differences found in the number of suggestion and solution sentences. These results suggest that increasing the transparency of peer review could lead to more detailed reports that focus on manuscript improvement.