FIGURE 2:

A 2010 analysis of researchers funded by NIGMS showed that, on average, productivity did not scale proportionally with funding beyond a relatively moderate direct-cost threshold. (Top panel) Average number of publications associated with NIH grants of NIGMS-funded investigators as a function of their total NIH direct costs (red line with circles) and the average impact factor of the journals in which each set of investigators published (blue line with squares). (Bottom panel) The unbinned data used to generate the averages shown in the top panel. Jeremy Berg, Paul Sheehy, and Matt Eblen (NIGMS) performed the data analysis.