The Costs of Competition in Distributing Scarce Research Funds

• Tác giả: Adrian Barnett, Peter van den Besselaar, Lutz Bornmann, Stijn Conix, Andreas De Block, John P. A Ioannidis, Ulf Sandström, Gerald Schweiger
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 570.72 Research; statistical methods
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 202142

Tóm tắt

 Comment: 29 pagesResearch funding systems are not isolated systems - they are embedded in a larger scientific system with an enormous influence on the system. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding from different perspectives: How reliable are decision processes for funding? What are the economic costs of competitive funding? How does competition for funds affect doing risky research? How do competitive funding environments affect scientists themselves, and which ethical issues must be considered? We attempt to identify gaps in our knowledge of research funding systems
  we propose recommendations for policymakers and funding agencies, including empirical experiments of decision processes and the collection of data on these processes. With our recommendations we hope to contribute to developing improved ways of organizing research funding.