Getting funded in a highly fluctuating environment: Shifting from excellence to luck and timing.

ABSTRACT: Recent data highlights the presence of luck in research grant allocations, where most vulnerable are early-career researchers. The national research funding contributes typically the greatest share of total research funding in a given country, fulfilling simultaneously the roles of promoting excellence in science, and most importantly, development of the careers of young generation of scientists. Yet, there is limited supply of studies that have investigated how do early-career researchers stand compared to advanced-career level researchers in case of a national research grant system. We analyzed the Estonian national highly competitive research grant funding across different fields of research for a ten-year-period between 2013-2022, including all the awarded grants for this period (845 g

SUBMITTER: Kindsiko E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9639839 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature