Distributions of scientific funding across universities and research disciplines
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Highlights：
• The suitable distribution of scientific funding is important to innovation acceleration.
• A longitudinal panel dataset of NSFC including the total 224,087 sponsored projects is utilized.
• The distributions of scientific funding across universities and research disciplines are investigated.
• The inequality of funding distribution is studied through the investigation of Gini coefficient.
• The fundamental rules are discovered through the technique of distribution fitting.
摘要
•The suitable distribution of scientific funding is important to innovation acceleration.•A longitudinal panel dataset of NSFC including the total 224,087 sponsored projects is utilized.•The distributions of scientific funding across universities and research disciplines are investigated.•The inequality of funding distribution is studied through the investigation of Gini coefficient.•The fundamental rules are discovered through the technique of distribution fitting.
论文关键词：Gini coefficient,NSFC,Distribution of scientific funding,Distribution fits,Inequality of funding allocation
论文评审过程：Received 24 August 2014, Revised 20 December 2014, Accepted 23 December 2014, Available online 14 January 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.12.007
