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Science funders gamble on grant lotteries

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  • David Adam

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A growing number of research agencies are assigning money randomly.

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  • David Adam, 2019. "Science funders gamble on grant lotteries," Nature, Nature, vol. 575(7784), pages 574-575, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:575:y:2019:i:7784:d:10.1038_d41586-019-03572-7
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-03572-7
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    1. Lawson, Cornelia & Salter, Ammon, 2023. "Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(9).
    2. Joshua Krieger & Ramana Nanda & Ian Hunt & Aimee Reynolds & Peter Tarsa, 2022. "Scoring and Funding Breakthrough Ideas: Evidence from a Global Pharmaceutical Company," Harvard Business School Working Papers 23-014, Harvard Business School, revised Nov 2023.
    3. Gregoire Mariethoz & Frédéric Herman & Amelie Dreiss, 2021. "The imaginary carrot: no correlation between raising funds and research productivity in geosciences," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(3), pages 2401-2407, March.
    4. Katie Meadmore & Kathryn Fackrell & Alejandra Recio-Saucedo & Abby Bull & Simon D S Fraser & Amanda Blatch-Jones, 2020. "Decision-making approaches used by UK and international health funding organisations for allocating research funds: A survey of current practice," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-17, November.
    5. Valdivia, Walter, 2021. "A Lottery for the Republic of Science: Chance, Merit, and Fairness in the Process of Awarding Research Grants," Working Papers 10461, George Mason University, Mercatus Center.
    6. Axel Philipps, 2022. "Research funding randomly allocated? A survey of scientists’ views on peer review and lottery," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 365-377.

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