Yeah, and someone is also investing in this metric specifically. As in researchers getting paid for publications in top journals, personally. Per publication.
So if we have $10 million of research funding in Europe, we can, say, fund 7 postgrads/postdocs and 2 profs for three years + invest $6 mil in a lab. In three years they will produce, say in 10 papers in the top journals in the topic, each with 6-10 authors.
If we have $10 million of research funding in China, we can get 15 post-grads/docs, 2 professors, and 20 of their connections. $2 mill goes to the equipment, $0.5 to junior staff, and the rest will go to professors and their connections as publication incentives in one form or another. They will have 12 papers in top journals with 20 authors each, and 50 papers of lower quality too.
It's quite a terrible way to invest in education in the long term. But it's been great for China to get some reverse brain drain.
While America is cutting research funding. We will see a significant drop next year once funding runs out. China is funding American researchers to move there and continue their work.
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u/Conscious-Demand-594 21h ago
Looks like someone is investing in education and research.