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The effect of competitive public funding on scientific output
Public funding is believed to play an important role in the development of science and technology.
However, whether public funding and, in particular, competitive funding from public agencies
actually helps to increase scientific output (i.e. publications) remains a matter of debate. By
analysing a dataset of co-publications between China and the EU and a dataset of joint project collaborations
in European Framework Programs for Research and Innovation [FP7 and Horizon
2020 (H2020)], we investigate whether different public funding agencies’ competitive assets have
different impact on the volume of publication output. Our results support the hypotheses that
competitively funded research output varies by funding sources, so that a high level of funding
does not necessarily lead to high scientific output. Our results sho