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Nature 460, 949 (20 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460949a; Published online 19 August 2009

Open Innovation Challenges

International peer review improved Irish research rankings

Conor O'Carroll1

  1. Irish Universities Association, 48 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
    Email: conor.ocarroll@iua.ie

Your News story 'Italy outsources peer review to NIH' (Nature 459, 900; 2009) highlights a problem common to many countries with a small population of research scientists. Ireland can be held up as a successful model in addressing this problem because, over the past eight years, funding agencies have moved to fully international peer review.

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