This page discusses the role of Expert Reviews during the Executive Committee meeting of the JWST peer review process.

An issue that has been identified for larger-scale proposals is the potential for conflicts of interest to affect discussions adversely; with a limited number of experts in any subject area, even one or two conflicts can reduce significantly the available expertise. As a means of mitigating those impacts, STScI solicits proposal reviews from community subject experts for the Large, Treasury and Legacy proposals to be discussed by the Executive Committee. 

The recruitment and proposal assignments follow the same process and mechanisms as in recruiting TAC members. Each proposal is reviewed by Expert reviewers that not grade the proposals, nor do they provide a relative ranking. They are asked to provide qualitative feedback in the following format:

• What are the major and minor strengths of the proposal?
• What are the major and minor weaknesses of the proposal?

In providing that feedback they should consider the Selection Criteria and Scoring System.

Dual-anonymous review protocols are maintained throughout. The Executive Committee is given access to these reviews, but not to the identity of the reviewers.

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