Toward a More Inclusive Proposal Review Process: Outcomes from the ALMA Cycle 8 Review
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Thursday, 17 February, 3 p.m. ESTRegister Now via Zoom |
ALMA introduced a number of changes to the proposal process in Cycle 8 2021, including the adoption of dual anonymous practices for all proposals (in which neither the reviewer nor proposing team know the identity of the other), and distributed peer review (in which each proposing team provides a reviewer for ten other submitted proposals). Overall, 1735 proposals were reviewed – 1497 of which were reviewed using distributed peer review – and the top ranked proposals populated the observing queue for Cycle 8, which began in October 2021. In this talk, we will summarize the changes made to the proposal review process and the results of the distributed peer review process. We will also present overviews of the extensive analyses performed on the final submitted ranks and review comments, as well as surveys of the process participants, and we will describe the effect the process had on existing systematic trends apparent over the last several proposing Cycles.
