This simulator illustrates the “snowball” effect where “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”. Researchers are modelled with a probability to publish each year; if funding agencies favour high-publishers, they will get more funding, and therefore more students and collaborators; as a result they will publish more, rank higher, and get even better success rate in future funding applications. Another mechanism allows to enforce a variable teaching load rule (as it exists in some countries) where higher publishers get a reduced teaching load, allowing them to spend more time on research and increase their publications; on the other hand, low publishers will get a higher teaching load, have less time to publish, and decrease their chance to get funding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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