研究经费集中导致边际收益递减
Concentration of research funding leads to decreasing marginal returns
摘要：
在大多数国家，基础研究由研究委员会支持，研究委员会在同行审查后选择接受资助的个人或团队。不幸的是，这些研究委员会可以分配的赠款数量不是无限的，在大多数情况下，少数研究人员获得了大部分资金。然而，关于这是否是分配现有资金的最佳方式，证据好坏参半。这项研究的目的是衡量魁北克省12，720名研究人员在15年期间（1998-2012年）获得的资金数额与他们在2000年至2013年期间的科学产出和影响之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明，无论是在论文的数量和他们的科学影响，集中在一个所谓的“精英”的研究人员手中的研究资金通常会产生边际收益递减。此外，我们发现资助最多的研究人员在产出和科学影响方面并不突出。
英文摘要：
In most countries, basic research is supported by research councils that select, after peer review, the individuals or teams that are to receive funding. Unfortunately, the number of grants these research councils can allocate is not infinite and, in most cases, a minority of the researchers receive the majority of the funds. However, evidence as to whether this is an optimal way of distributing available funds is mixed. The purpose of this study is to measure the relation between the amount of funding provided to 12,720 researchers in Quebec over a fifteen year period (1998-2012) and their scientific output and impact from 2000 to 2013. Our results show that both in terms of the quantity of papers produced and of their scientific impact, the concentration of research funding in the hands of a so-called "elite" of researchers generally produces diminishing marginal returns. Also, we find that the most funded researchers do not stand out in terms of output and scientific impact.
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