Researchers propose alternative way to allocate science funding

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 07:00 in Earth & Climate

Researchers in the United States have suggested an alternative way to allocate science funding. The method, which is described in EMBO Reports, depends on a collective distribution of funding by the scientific community, requires only a fraction of the costs associated with the traditional peer review of grant proposals and, according to the authors, may yield comparable or even better results.

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