| By: |
Alberto Corsini (UCA - Université Côte d'Azur);
Michele Pezzoni (UCA - Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques - HCERES - Haut Conseil de l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur, OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po, ICRIOS - ICRIOS, Bocconi University, Italy - Bocconi University [Milan, Italy]) |
| Abstract: |
Over the last fifteen years, European countries have increasingly relied on
competitive grants to allocate research funding, replacing the more
traditional block funding model. Policymakers are interested in assessing the
effectiveness of the grant funding model in producing impactful research.
However, the literature aiming to quantify the effect of grants on the
resulting research's impact is scant. In the French context, we compare the
impact of scientific articles resulting from the support of competitive grants
from the main national funding agency with the impact of articles not
supported by grants. We rely on publication acknowledgments to retrieve
funding information and on citation data to assess the articles' impact. We
find that articles supported by competitive grants receive more citations than
articles not supported by grants in the long run, while the difference is not
statistically significant in the short run. We find heterogeneity in the
effect of grant funding on citations across fields. |
| Keywords: |
Competitive funding, Research impact, French funding agency |
| Date: |
2022–12–24 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03912647&r=sog |