Report Charts Decline in NSF Grant-Application Success Rate

Scientists face a much tougher time landing research grants from the National Science Foundation than in the past, partly because more scientists are applying for a limited pot of money. However, neither the number of scientists awarded grants nor the quality of applications has declined.

Those are some of the findings from a detailed new NSF report about the steep decline from 2000 to 2006 in the percentage of grant applications that the agency financed, which dropped from roughly one

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