Review creates a resource for funders across the globe, bringing together evidence on the use and effectiveness of different peer review processes.

The review of peer review considers peer review from the perspective of research culture and is a resource for all funders looking to optimise and innovate their peer review processes.

Thirty-eight interventions or changes to a ‘baseline’ peer review process are examined, including the use of:

• expressions of interest
• demand management
• partial randomisation
• sandpits or matching events

Recommendations are made for all funders, including:

• that information technology (IT) systems need to have the necessary flexibility and function
• that some interventions have the potential to become a ‘new normal’ in order to save burden and reduce bias across the board
• that funders should monitor any interventions they undertake
• that investigations into wider research culture must continue alongside the process interventions discussed in the report