Table 3. Recommended incremental transparency measures.
Item | Should this item be published? |
Abstracts (or lay abstracts) | Yes |
Impact statements | Yes |
Full proposals (funded only) | No* |
Names of external reviewers and scientific review board members | Yes, in aggregated form, following the selection process |
Detailed (external) reviews | No* |
Review summaries of failed proposals | No |
Review summaries of funded proposals | Yes |
Ranking of proposals | Yes, only for funded proposals |
Funding budget granted to projects | Yes |
Call success rate | Yes |
Final reports | Yes |
*Starred items may be considered as radical transparency measures; at this time we deem it premature to recommend their open publication by default but would welcome small-scale experimentation in this area.