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. 2017 Nov 1;28(22):2935–2940. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E17-07-0462

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FIGURE 2: — Evidence supporting diminishing returns at the upper end of the funding spectrum. Association of the annual weighted Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) among all papers linked to a scientist’s grants with annual Grant Support Index (GSI). Owing to skewed distributions, both RCR and GSI values are natural log-transformed; the numbers inside the axes represent the raw, nontransformed values. An annual GSI value of 7 corresponds to approximately one R01 grant, while annual GSI values of 14 and 21 correspond to two and three R01 grants. Note the decreasing slope of the regression curve as annual GSI increases. Source: Presentation by NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch to NIGMS Council, May 26, 2017 (Lorsch, 2017).