For the $10/​life, were you referring to this? A solution to the low prestige, low citation, but important research is a doubly altruistic researcher who is willing to work for no money and few citations. By the way, I haven’t been able to find data, but I think most research is unfunded. This is certainly true in the humanities, but even in STEM, my experience is that most grad students outside the top 50 U.S. universities are unfunded. And professors at colleges with no grad students are many times expected to produce research, typically unfunded.
For the $10/​life, were you referring to this? A solution to the low prestige, low citation, but important research is a doubly altruistic researcher who is willing to work for no money and few citations. By the way, I haven’t been able to find data, but I think most research is unfunded. This is certainly true in the humanities, but even in STEM, my experience is that most grad students outside the top 50 U.S. universities are unfunded. And professors at colleges with no grad students are many times expected to produce research, typically unfunded.