由公共财政支持的科研项目必须承担公共受托责任,保证财政效率。我们依照科学程序选取了各29项以“政府”为研究对象的国家社科基金与自然科学基金项目,通过对结项成果的“论文数量”、“论文丰满度”、“他引频次”、“复合影响因子”和“下载频次”等5个指标财政效率的测算,发现科研项目是消耗公共资金的“巨兽”,存在“边际效率递减”的和“低效、无效与挥霍”的不良现象。这启示我们:我国公共财政资助的科研经费利用水平低,相关部门对项目经费缺乏有效监管,科研资助单位之间缺乏必要的竞争与公共资金追责机制,科研资助的制度设计对“道德人”期望过高。要解决这些问题,需要改变“课题拜物教”,树立结果导向的基本理念;实行成果公开,经费去向公示制度;改变政府既当“赞助商”、又当“裁判员”的现状,并成立科研项目评价事务所等。
Research project is the "science of the social contract" made by governments and scholars with distinctive nature of public contract. Measured by the research project funding data of "number of papers", "fullness of paper (layout) ", "cites", "composite impact factor" and "download frequency" , we find that the research project efficiency of public finance is undesirable compared with the abroad benchmarks. The dilemma has made it clear that the utilization of public finance in the research projects is lower than we expected. To solve the problem, we must change the "project fetishism" into resuh- oriented thoughts and try to establish the public announcement system, sunset system, "research project office" in public finance founded research fields.