TY - JOUR AU - Barnett, Adrian G. AU - Clarke, Philip AU - Vaquette, Cedryck AU - Graves, Nicholas PY - 2017 DA - 2017/09/15 TI - Using democracy to award research funding: an observational study JO - Research Integrity and Peer Review SP - 16 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - Winning funding for health and medical research usually involves a lengthy application process. With success rates under 20%, much of the time spent by 80% of applicants could have been better used on actual research. An alternative funding system that could save time is using democracy to award the most deserving researchers based on votes from the research community. We aimed to pilot how such a system could work and examine some potential biases. SN - 2058-8615 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-017-0040-0 DO - 10.1186/s41073-017-0040-0 ID - Barnett2017 ER -