If college teachers want to continue to promote, in addition to publishing high-scoring SCIs, they also need to have project support, especially the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
As more and more people compete for national nature projects, national nature applications have become one of the most difficult "battles" in academic circles, and who mentions it is not a bitter tear.
Let's take a look at how many volumes the applicant country naturally has?
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Analysis of the statistical application and funding data of the National Natural Science Foundation of China over the years, the competition between the general project and the youth science fund project has become increasingly fierce, especially in 2021, the approval rate is only about 17.0%, which means that most people have failed to apply for the project.
What's more, someone complained on the Little Red Book, and now even academicians have come to grab the noodle project.
This has also attracted the attention of many netizens.
Someone directly lay flat: "I can't roll it, I have already seen it"
Someone seriously suggested: "Limit the big guy application, up to three faces..."
Some people find it understandable, "From the perspective of development, the country really needs big coffee to do something to promote development... Reflect on yourself every time you fail..."
Some people feel that the reason for involution is that there are too many teams, and the team should be concentrated, and cross-school combinations may not be impossible.
Some people also said that this is not a rare thing, academicians or university presidents apply, in recent years.
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Compared with having academicians also come to fight for national nature, what is more sad is that national nature not only affects the career of scientific researchers, but also affects the love and life of some people...
Someone posted on Zhihu:
I am 36 this year, just got engaged to my girlfriend at the beginning of the year, preparing to get married at the end of the year, the application for the National Natural Science Foundation has failed 2 times, my girlfriend said to give me one last chance, if I fail again this time, break up with me, and I am about to release the list, I can't sleep in these two days.
After netizens saw the post, they all came down to express their views:
➤ Netizen 1: If the subject gets married in the future, she follows you to meet the big guy who took the key and Jie Qing, will she remarry? Caution, friend.
➤ Netizen 2: I also failed to apply twice, fortunately, the baby gave birth to two.
➤ Netizen 3: If I am hit, my daughter-in-law promised to give me 10,000 pocket money.
➤ Netizen 4: Can't get the fund, either go up or go (or can't go to the vice high), the fiancée thinks that he is going to be unemployed (or has no future), and asks to break up, so isn't it straightened out.
In fact, the National Natural Science Foundation of China is only a part of scientific research, strive for it, and maintain a good attitude at the same time. This year, love is not as reliable as fund projects, and this girlfriend also has "scientific research pursuits".
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Share the real story of a researcher who was rolled up when applying for national nature... Many people may have experienced it too.
First of all, individual efforts cannot be less
Secondly, the support of the big guy is very important
Secondly, personal self-confidence is important
There are hard work and big guys have confidence, but unfortunately in the end it didn't succeed.....
I opened the word and saw a line of text, and my heart was cold.
Take a look at these words:
"Stale" – First blood
"Non-conformity" – Double Kill
"Far from it" – Triple Kill
"Even" – Quadra Kill
"Redrafting" – Penta Kill
After five consecutive blows, I was already powerless, discouraged, exhausted, exhausted, sluggish, like an eggplant beaten by frost, sucked out of my soul.
Do you know this feeling, when you think you are going to succeed, and others tell you?
"Your stuff is a piece of Shit."
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I thought that the success or failure of the nature of the applicant country was only related to myself, but I never expected that it could be extended to the children, and there was a kindergarten affiliated to a college that posted the parents of kindergarten children receiving national natural funding when the kindergarten was released.
The list lists the information of the kindergarten's parents who have won the National Natural Science Foundation of China in the past three years, including not only the parents' names, the types of national nature, but even the names of the kindergarten children.
It's uncomfortable enough to roll up in college, and now you actually want to open the book from kindergarten?
It has also triggered a discussion among netizens, could it be that the country has naturally risen to the difficulty of deciding the fate of two generations.......
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Starting in August every year, many netizens will often go to the national natural system to refresh the review results, and even lose sleep. After the results are announced, there must be a few joys and a few sorrows, but there is not much time left for academics to sigh, or quickly sort out their mood, pack their bags and continue to go.
If you regret that you are rejected, you can consider the following questions provided by the senior practitioner of academic editing @AER1898 (Zhihu user):
a. Is it to improve or start over?
If the declaration fails, do not casually discard the tender that you have carefully prepared but did not win the bid, and it is not uncommon to have a successful experience in the second year after revising and enriching the tender.
If there is no fatal injury, do not easily change the research field and blindly pursue hot spots, because the country naturally encourages scholars to carry out long-term and continuous research in a certain direction, and it is usually difficult to obtain funding for frequent changes of research fields.
b. Is the tender easy to read?
The title should be short and concise; The abstract part avoids nonsense clichés, and it is best to make sure that the abstract cannot be added or subtracted.
Avoid duplicate descriptions of content; For example, the research content and research plan, the former is the scientific question clearly proposed in the tender, and the latter is the refinement of the former - the research method decided according to the research content, the selected research materials, etc. The two have different emphases and should be distinguished when described.
Students and colleagues can view tenders to check the legibility of the content; You can also ask other experts to view the tender to simulate the scenario of the review expert reading and evaluating the tender quickly, even if the expert friend does not know much about his field, but the suggestions made are likely to greatly improve the comprehensibility of the article.
c.Has it demonstrated trustworthy research capabilities?
Some researchers may wonder why they are still questioned whether the project can be successfully completed after publishing the Top journal. Although the applicant's representative work is important, if it is an article that is not relevant to the application topic, even a high-scoring journal may not be able to fully convince the review experts.
In addition, although the Youth Fund is more friendly to junior researchers, it is still necessary not to neglect basic research, and it is best to list important achievement awards and prepare all the critics beyond reproach.
d. Are details holding back?
Carefully check the formatting and punctuation, and you can also print it out to check whether the paragraphs are aligned and the layout is beautiful. Sentences in paragraphs are spaced with commas, and the end of a period at the end of the paragraph should be avoided; Also pay attention to checking for formatting errors in references, such as missing years or volumes, which can leave a negative impression on reviewers as not rigorous or serious.
Is the mood stable?
If the author carefully examines the tender and does not seem to find the above problems, and the review opinion is only simple - there is no innovation and the foundation is not enough, so it is impossible to wonder whether the review experts have carefully studied the application or are biased against the applicant's platform.
When the author has unfounded suspicions and certain emotions, it is likely to affect the judgment, and you can wait until the mood has calmed down before reviewing the peer review and revisiting the tender or consulting an experienced expert.
Are you proud?
Of course, researchers who have successfully applied can not be taken lightly, which is not only a cliché that is not arrogant, but more importantly, the more important reason is that the NSFC should do performance evaluation, although the post-completion evaluation has not been fully carried out at present, but the future will continue to improve the post-evaluation mechanism, and the evaluation results will be used as an important reference for whether follow-up projects can be funded.
In other words, the performance evaluation mechanism of "rewarding the good and punishing the inferior" will make it more and more difficult, not easier, for applicants to obtain national natural funding multiple times. If you want to receive the same level (or higher, quota) of national nature funding multiple times, you must use the previously funded funds to achieve fruitful research results, otherwise it will be difficult to successfully apply again.
Finally, I will conclude with a quote from Alexandre Dumas in The Count of Monte Cristo: All the wisdom of the world is contained in these four words - waiting and hope. I wish scientific researchers and scholars a long and bright road ahead.
Original: Ready? The national nature release list in 2023, the surprise and expectation of the imminent trigger!