The H-index measures citation performance—not scientific merit in its entirety. It can indicate that a researcher has produced several frequently cited papers, but it does not directly measure whether those […]

Fairness means applying the same relevant criteria to ourselves that we apply to other people. If we regard our own need for food, security, recognition, meaningful work, or financial support […]

Research funding determines which questions scientists can investigate, which laboratories survive, and which discoveries reach society. Yet the conventional grant system often allocates money through a small number of committees […]

SciWard (SciWard) is not merely another grant platform. It is a proposed replacement layer for the broken parts of institutional science funding: slow calls, committee bottlenecks, administrative overhead, and discrimination […]

Introduction: the discrimination problem in traditional grants Traditional scientific grant systems claim to fund the best research. In practice, they often fund the best-connected, most institutionally protected, and most conventionally […]