国家自然科学基金“青年基金”资助效果评估——以水稻、小麦及玉米学科为例

Evaluation of Funding Effect on Young Scientist Fund Program of the NSFC in Rice,Wheat and Corn

研究基金投入与论文产出关系关乎基金绩效评价、科研人员积极性和中国科学事业发展。研究基于Web of Science平台,以2012年度国家自然科学基金"青年基金"资助"水稻""小麦""玉米"项目为研究对象,对其资助的SCI基金论文进行数据统计及定性、定量分析。通过对"SCI论文项目比""单项目平均资助SCI论文数""第一或通讯SCI论文率""篇均被引频次""篇均影响因子"等指标的研究表明"青年基金"对"水稻"领域的资助力度最大;同时"水稻"领域的科研工作者体现出较强的实力;"小麦"领域项目负责人表现出较大的产出潜力;"玉米"领域的获批项目资助发表的SCI论文平均水平最高,体现出"玉米"具有较优的效率。从项目所属学科和单位性质分布角度分析,发现三种作物的"青年基金"分别以"生命科学部"(占76.1%)和"高等院校"(占58.3%)最多。针对这种各有优势现状,宜采取差异化发展战略,在进一步严格做好"水稻"学科发展的同时,加大对"小麦"和"玉米"学科的扶持力度,将有助于提升中国农业基础研究的综合实力。

The relationship between funding input and output is related to the performance evaluation, the enthusiasm of researchers and the development of science and technology in china. In this study, we collected the projects funded by the ＂Young Scientist Fund Program of the NSFC＂ in the field of rice, wheat and corn from the Internet based Science Information System, and qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed the characters of funded SCl-papers based on the Web of Science dataset. The evaluation indexes, such as percent of projects funded for SCl-collected papers, average number of funded SCl-collected papers for single project, percent of SCl-collected papers authored by project leader as the first or corresponding author, average citations per paper, average impact factor per paper etc, revealed that the researchers in the rice field had stronger strength, the project leaders in the wheat filed had more potential, and the corn field had better efficiency. Analysis of subject and unit distribution showed that the biological sciences subject （76.1%） and the Colleges and Universities （58.3%） were the major, respectively. Each crop has its predominance, and thus the differentiated development strategy should be adopted, on the one side to strictly check the subject in the field office, and on the other side to increase the support in the field of wheat and corn discipline.