China’s Young Thousand Talents fails to attract ‘top’ scientists

Thanks for covering our research. Deeply appreciated. One thing that I'd like to point out is that the YTT program did help improve the returnee scientists' productivity in the post-return era. In comparison to their overseas peers, the YTT scientists were associated with a very large jump in knowledge production across all tiers of journals, especially in terms of last-authored publications. This result indicates that the talent program helped them to become principle investigators to pursue independent research agena, an opportunity that they would not have had overseas due to the current science funding schemes in the US and EU.