Research fund evaluation based on academic publication output analysis: the case of Chinese research fund evaluation

Government funding is a key scientific research resource, and it has made a concrete contribution to the world’s science and technology development. But these funds come from common taxpayers, so we need to evaluate the effectiveness of these funds. Generally speaking, policymakers adopt the method of peer review to make assessments. Compared to kinds of shortcomings of peer review, the paper here proposed the benchmarking evaluation method...