Measuring Peer Review Quality Figure 2. Box plots for the number of papers published subsequent to application (first row). Median numbers of citations for papers published prior to application (second row) and median numbers of citations for papers published subsequent to application (third row) (approved and rejected applicants for the LTF and YI programme). Note. Applications from 1998 (LTF programme) and 2001/2002 (YI programme); publication windows: from 1993 to the beginning of 2006 (LTF programme), from 1984 to the beginning of 2007 (YI programme); citation window: from year of publication to the beginning of 2006 and 2007, respectively. Since the downloading of citation counts was done in 2006 and 2007, respectively, one cannot expect high median citation counts yet for the most recent publications (see the graphs in the third row of the figure). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003480.g002 PLoS ONE | www.plosone.org 4 October 2008 | Volume 3 | Issue 10 | e3480