Research funding is essential to promote the scientific activity of researchers and the dissemination of their results. Simplifying, funding schemes can be classified in two categories— competitive and non-competitive —with several corresponding advantages and shortcomings, which are widely discussed in the scientific literature. The researchers of Politecnico di Torino (i.e., one of the major Italian technical universities) have recently been funded through a non-competitive research funding, consisting of 14k€ for every single researcher in each of the last three years (i.e., from 2017 to 2019), for a total of 42k€. This somewhat unusual initiative—also called “diffused funding” (DF)—represents an important opportunity to investigate the effects of the relatively large allocation of non-competitive funding to single researchers. In this regard, this paper investigates the effects of the DF on the researchers’ scientific output, according to four dimensions of analysis: publishing productivity , publishing diffusion/impact , journal reputation , and international research relations . Preliminary results do not indicate any improvement in the publication output, at least in the short term.

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非竞争性资助对单一学术研究人员的短期影响

研究资金对于促进研究人员的科学活动和传播他们的成果至关重要。简而言之，资助计划可以分为两类——竞争性和非竞争性——有几个相应的优点和缺点，这些在科学文献中被广泛讨论。Politecnico di Torino（即意大利主要技术大学之一）的研究人员最近获得了一项非竞争性研究资金的资助，在过去三年中（即从 2017 年到2019 年），总计 42,000 欧元。这一有点不寻常的举措——也称为“分散资金”(DF)——代表了一个重要的机会，可以研究将非竞争性资金相对大量分配给单个研究人员的影响。在这方面，本文根据四个维度分析了 DF 对研究人员科学产出的影响：出版生产力、出版传播/影响、期刊声誉和国际研究关系。初步结果并不表明出版物产出有任何改善，至少在短期内是这样。