Form 1 NIH Enhancing Peer Review Capacity SurveyReviewer Screen

Reviewer Survey 
Web Survey Screenshots 
DRAFT 
Version 1 
August 6, 2014

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Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 15 minutes per response,
including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the
data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: NIH, Project Clearance Branch,
6705 Rockledge Drive, MSC 7974, Bethesda, MD 20892-7974, ATTN: PRA (0925-0627*). Do not return the
completed form to this address.
Introduction
This survey of scientists is to help the National Institutes of Health (NIH) examine the preferences of prospective and
current reviewers in relation to the peer review of NIH grant applications. The objectives of this survey are to better
understand reviewers’ incentives and optimize our efforts to identify highly qualified scientists to serve as reviewers.
The information you provide will also be used to help define appropriate expectations for reviewer commitments.
You were randomly selected to participate in this survey from a pool of scientists who have applied for research
grant funding in the past five years. We are interested in the opinions of potential reviewers with different levels of
research and peer review experience. Even if you have limited experience reviewing research grant applications,
your opinions are very important to us.
The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. You can stop at any point and continue at another
time. There are no right or wrong answers, so please give the answers that best describe your opinion. While we
would like you to answer all the questions in this survey, you may skip any questions that you do not wish to answer.
Your participation is entirely voluntary. If you choose to complete the survey, your responses will remain private
under the Privacy Act. Your responses will not be made known to NIH staff or grant applicants. They will not be
used to assess the performance of individual NIH Institutes, Centers, Scientific Review Groups, or NIH staff, and will
not affect whether you will be invited to serve as a reviewer in the future. Aggregate responses will be used to guide
NIH management in refining our peer review process.
For more information about the peer review process at NIH, please visit:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/peer_review_process.htm
Your participation is greatly appreciated!!!!!

Form Approved
OMB Number 0925-0627
Exp. Date: April, 2017

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Note: Item “Fellowship/Career awards” will be replaced with the first item selected on Page 21. If no items were 
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Note: Item “Small Business awards” will be replaced with the second item selected on Page 21. If two items were not 
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