Research funding: past performance is a stronger predictor of future scientific output than reviewer scores

Balázs Győrffy, Péter Herman and István Szabó

Journal of Informetrics, 2020, vol. 14, issue 3

Abstract: Scientific grants are awarded almost exclusively on the basis of an independent peer review of a proposal submitted by the principal investigator (PI). The writing and reviewing of these applications consumes a significant amount of researchers’ time. Here, we perform a large-scale performance evaluation of review-based grant allocation via analysis of the grant proposals submitted to the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.

Keywords: Funding; Reviewer assessments; Basic research; Publications; Scientific output; Q1; H-index; Internationalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2020.101050

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