Please submit corrections using the format specified above. Before submitting them, please consult our recent publication that summarizes BRIMR’s ranking methodology, and keep the following principles in mind:

• The goal is to correct errors, not to alter or “game” the rankings. As a rule, grants should be credited to the primary home department, school, and institution of the single named principal investigator (PI) of the award as reported to NIH. BRIMR’s methodology conforms to NIH policy in most respects and strongly presumes the NIH Worldwide dataset is accurate.
• An award is listed only if funds were disbursed by NIH during the fiscal year. Hence multi-year awards show only the current-year’s funding, and “active” awards that received no new funds (such as no-cost extensions) do not appear at all. BRIMR never changes the dollar amount of an award and we do not add awards that aren’t listed in the NIH Worldwide file.
• Like NIH, BRIMR credits all funding for a given award to only one organization and one PI.
• We do not use information obtained from the NIH’s RePORTER search tool unless it is also listed in the NIH Worldwide file. Please do not cite RePORTER as the basis for requesting changes.

For each listed award, look carefully at six parameters that BRIMR uses for ranking purposes, namely:

Column A – ORGANIZATION NAME
Column D – FUNDING MECHANISM
Column F – PI NAME
Column J – NIH DEPT COMBINING NAME
Column K – NIH MC COMBINING NAME
Column N – FUNDING

We also rely on columns P, Q, and U when ranking cities, states, and Independent Hospitals, respectively.

Listings for awards designated as “R&D CONTRACTS” in column D often lack key information that BRIMR needs for its rankings. In the interest of fairness, we therefore omit R&D contracts from all our rankings of schools, departments, or PIs, though we do include them in rankings of organizations and also provide a list of them alphabetically by PI name. We treat all other funding mechanisms equally for ranking purposes. Changes for awards designated as R&D Contracts (in column D) should be limited to those affecting the PI’s name.

The “combining names” (columns J and K) are standardized categories assigned by NIH. BRIMR only ranks entities that are classified as Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health, or Veterinary Medicine (in column K), or as Independent Hospitals in column U. We only rank departments (column J) in Schools of Medicine. PIs are ranked in comparison to others who received awards under the same department type (column J) in a medical school (column K), regardless of their individual training or specialty.

Please pay particular attention to awards for which any of the above columns is marked “NONE”, “UNAVAILABLE”, “UNIVERSITY-WIDE”, etc., or is simply blank. BRIMR cannot include these awards in most rankings unless the missing information is provided to us.

Requests for corrections must be received by the stated deadline. Early submission is encouraged. Revisions will be made after the deadline only when they result entirely from an error on BRIMR’s part. By submitting such a request, you waive any claim of confidentiality and authorize us to share it with others at our sole discretion. We regret that not all proposed changes may be implemented, and that none will be applied to prior years. No changes will be communicated by BRIMR to the NIH. If you spot an error, please check whether it is also present in the NIH’s Worldwide 2025 file; if so, your Institutional Signing Officer may contact NIH directly to correct it in future years as appropriate.

We are deeply grateful to all of the stakeholders whose careful attention to the source data each year helps us keep the BRIMR rankings as accurate, valid, and reliable as possible.