Judging from the current review process of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the project defense review of the talent category and key category has already entered, and the subject (face-to-face) review will be carried out later.
The review of China Nature is divided into several parts:
1. For the evaluation of talents (excellent youth, outstanding youth, etc.) and key projects, it is necessary to defend at the conference, and the relevant defense notice will be notified and confirmed 3 weeks in advance.
2. The applicants will not be notified of projects without defense. For projects that need to be defended, the review needs to notify the applicant himself separately.
3. The largest subject category (youth, general, regional) review does not need to be defended at the meeting; it is only selected based on the situation of subject review experts who have discussed the meeting.
4. Overseas excellent youth project, since the first selection in 2021, this year is the third; after the meeting discusses the selection, it will be submitted to the relevant department for final determination.
5. The project types of the defense generally fall into the following categories: group, basic center, outstanding youth, excellent youth, key (key national cooperation), major instrument, original exploration, major project, and individual notification defense.
So what are the standards for ordinary project conferences?
1. The concept of meeting
"At the meeting" refers to successfully passing the initial review, and successfully entering the stage of meeting review (meeting review) after communication review (letter review) and summary analysis of review opinions.
Figure 1 National Natural Review Process
2. Understand the scoring criteria and know the scores of the meeting
Each academic department generally assigns different scores to the comprehensive evaluation and funding opinions . Under normal circumstances, A in the comprehensive evaluation corresponds to 4 points, B corresponds to 3 points, C corresponds to 2 points, and D corresponds to 1 point; A in the funding opinion corresponds to 4 points, B corresponds to 2 points, and C does not count. The final meeting score (total score) = comprehensive score + funding opinion points . See Figure 3 for details.
Figure 3 Fund Score Calculation Method
All items will be automatically ranked and graded according to the total score . Generally, the top 12% are category I items , 12% to 30% are category II items , and the rest are category III items . In principle, category I projects must be funded (unless there are special circumstances, such as innovation, publication of papers in dubious journals, missing content, etc.), less than half of category II projects can be funded, and category III projects will not participate in the review and will not be funded automatically. The focus of the review is to determine which category I projects are abnormal and which category II projects should be funded.
According to the evaluation status of the NSFC over the years, taking general projects (generally 5 letter evaluation experts) and youth projects (generally 3 letter evaluation experts) as examples, the total score and the corresponding situation of whether to attend the meeting are explained. See Table 1 and Table 2 for details.
Table 15 letter evaluation scores and attendance status (approximately 30% attendance rate)
(Generally, projects with a total score ≥ 5 points can go to the conference, and projects with a comprehensive evaluation ≥ 3.2 points have a 70% probability of passing the conference review)
Note: A comprehensive evaluation of C will significantly increase points. If there is D, it is basically impossible to meet, so this table does not have the situation of D.
Table 23 letter evaluation scores and attendance status (approximately 30% attendance rate)
(Generally, projects with a total score ≥ 5 points can go to the conference, and projects with a comprehensive evaluation ≥ 3.2 points have a 70% probability of passing the conference review)
Note: A comprehensive evaluation of C will significantly increase points. If there is D, it is basically impossible to meet, so this table does not have the situation of D.
Source of this article: Weiqing Scholars
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