Getting started with Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform

The Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform manages the review of research applications: it helps program staff build panels, flags possible conflicts of interest between reviewers and applicants, and assigns applications to reviewers. Reviewers score and critique in one place, under single-blind or anonymized review as your program chooses, and panels meet with scores and discussion recorded. Every conflict decision, score and recommendation is kept with its reasoning for program officials, oversight staff and appeals.

What it is for

Research funding agencies review large numbers of applications each cycle, and the integrity of the result depends on matching each application with qualified reviewers who have no conflict of interest. Conflicts are usually found from reviewers' own disclosures and staff knowledge, which misses co-authorships, shared institutions and past mentoring relationships. Assignments, scores and critiques move through spreadsheets and email, anonymization is applied by hand, and when an applicant appeals or an auditor asks how a decision was made, the record is incomplete.

• Possible conflicts between reviewers and applicants are found by hand and inconsistently
• Panel building and assignment take staff time that grows with every application
• Anonymized review depends on manual redaction of applicant details
• Scores, critiques and conflict decisions are hard to reconstruct for appeals and audits

Who uses it

• Federal research funding agencies and their review offices
• Scientific review officers and program officers who run panels
• External scientific reviewers and panel chairs
• Grants management and program leadership who make funding decisions
• Ethics officials, inspectors general and auditors who review the process

Before you start

• Your organization licenses Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform from Moraph.
• A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
• Access to Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
• For setup: the product administrator role.

Steps to get started

1. Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.

2. Open Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.

3. Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.

4. Product administrators: work through Set up Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform before your team starts.

5. Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.

Where to go next

• Set up Scientific Grant Peer Review Platform
• Everyday tasks
• Connect your systems
• Security, data and compliance
• Troubleshooting and the support guide
• Product overview on moraph.com