In his annual report to China's top legislature at the National People's Congress in Beijing earlier this month, Premier Wen Jiabao highlighted the need for government science funding to be allotted and spent more efficiently — raising the hopes of Chinese researchers that the funding system will soon be overhauled.
Currently, a Chinese researcher's funding is based on the number of papers they have listed in Thomson Reuters' Science Citation Index and the impact factors of the journals in which they are published, rather than on an evaluation of the work's scientific importance.
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