Abstract:This letter aims to highlight severe inconsistencies in the scientific evaluation of regionally publicly funded research projects, uncovering structural failures related to the public management of science that go beyond technical aspects of bibliometrics. This problem is exemplified through an illustrative case study (the public grants program to emerging research groups funded by the regional government of the Valencian region, Spain, NUTS-2), describing three complementary aspects of this call (the evaluati… Show more
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