Successful peer review processes face several types of challenges.
Procedural challenges include:
- Ensuring that manuscripts and proposals go to the appropriate individuals or review groups
- Ensuring that manuscripts and proposals from new professionals receive equitable treatment, i.e., avoiding a process that favors established researchers ("old boy" network)
- Realizing that
errors made by reviewers, including personal biases, are more difficult
to recognize than errors made by authors or grant applicants
