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Nature 440, 1112 (27 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/4401112c; Published online 26 April 2006
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Funding should recognize outcome, not income
Christopher Exley1
- Birchall Centre for Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Science, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
I was disappointed to read in your Editorial "Brown's budget briefing" (Nature 440, 581; 2006), discussing a future replacement for the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), that you consider "external research income" as "a reasonable basis for departmental funding".I hope it is still true to say that no major scientific prizes or seats at the high tables of science have been awarded on the basis of an individual's research income.
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