Getting funded in a highly fluctuating environment: Shifting from excellence to luck and timing.

## Is the topic important? The issue of whether research grant funding allocations are promoting research excellence is very topical and highly significant, especially in the tumultuous economic times we are currently experiencing.

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It can be seen from Fig 4 that the average annual size of the grants had a decreasing trend at the advanced-career level before the change in grant policy.

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