Structured Review Protocols and Collaborative Research Quality

The analytic cohort included projects with complete milestone records and a final committee decision.

The primary model estimated the association between protocol exposure and the committee quality score with department and term adjustments.

The analysis is reported with the study constraints and decision protocol described above. Interpretations are revisited in the discussion and supplementary material.

Adoption was associated with higher committee scores and more explicit documentation of methodological uncertainty.

The point estimate was stable across departmental fixed-effects specifications, although the precision of the estimate was not reported in the main table.

The analysis is reported with the study constraints and decision protocol described above. Interpretations are revisited in the discussion and supplementary material.

The results suggest that separating independent judgment from synthesis may improve the legibility of collaborative research decisions.

The intervention also made dissent easier to retain when reviewers disagreed about the strength of the available evidence.

The analysis is reported with the study constraints and decision protocol described above. Interpretations are revisited in the discussion and supplementary material.

Analysis scripts were developed in a shared computational environment. Restricted departmental records cannot be distributed directly.

The authors plan to provide supporting materials after the editorial process is complete.

The analysis is reported with the study constraints and decision protocol described above. Interpretations are revisited in the discussion and supplementary material.