caa a22 4500 445348399 CHVBK 20180317142836.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0323-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0323-4 Fang Hui School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China aut Peer review and over-competitive research funding fostering mainstream opinion to monopoly [Elektronische Daten] [Hui Fang] The aim of peer review is to separate the wheat from the chaff for publication and research funding. In the excessive competition, this mechanism would only select the wheat of mainstream. Up to now, almost all discussions on the consequence of the short-comings of peer review are limited to qualitatively description. I propose a model of "peer-group-assessed-grant-based-funding-system” combined with tenure system and over-competitive research funding review process. It is the first on the quantitatively investigation which dramatizes the current short-comings of the process. My simulation shows that it takes about two or three generations of researchers for the mainstream of a complicated research topic obtaining monopoly supremacy, with only the aid of the mechanism the model described. Based on the computation results, suggestions are proposed to avoid loss of self-correction capability on popularity determined single research direction which could be wrong on very complicated research topics. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2010 Peer review nationallicence Research funding nationallicence Excessive competition nationallicence Mainstream nationallicence Mathematical model nationallicence Simulation nationallicence Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/2(2011-05-01), 293-301 0138-9130 87:2<293 2011 87 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0323-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0323-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Fang Hui School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/2(2011-05-01), 293-301 0138-9130 87:2<293 2011 87 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer