Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Fortin, Jean Michel ^a   Currie, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORGANIZATIONAL DOWNSIZING; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PREDICTION; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 84879199915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065263     Document Type: Article

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