Global Science Funded by Czech Money. Evaluation Shows Exceptional Performance in Domestic Health Research

Czech health research achieves above-average results in international comparisons, even though the government invests significantly less in it than most developed European countries. This is shown by an interim evaluation of the Program to Support Applied Health Research for 2024–2030, ČR for the ČR Health Research Agency ČR the Technology Center Prague. The results of the analysis also indicate that the current model of “cutting-edge science on a shoestring budget” may not be sustainable in the long term.

In the field of medical research, the Czech Republic ranks among the countries that are able to achieve exceptionally high-quality results despite limited resources. The interim evaluation of the Program to Support Applied Medical Research for 2024–2030 (NW) shows that Czech researchers achieve significantly above-average international visibility in clinical medicine. The field-normalized citation impact of Czech publications in clinical medicine—the field with the highest publication output—reached 2.42 in 2024, more than double the global average. In other fields of health research as well, field-normalized citation rates reach above-average values globally. In other words: Czech health research is exceptionally respected and cited on an international scale.

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