Inside portrait of the research crowd-funding platform Microryza, at their office/home in San Francisco.

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A team of researchers who found that people think they are more attractive when drinking alcohol, have scooped an Ig Nobel prize for their work. The researchers from France and the US confirmed the "beer goggle effect" also works on oneself.

With only one in five National Health and Medical Research Council ( NHMRC) grant applications successful, and a similar rate for Australian Research Council ( ARC) Discovery grants, it's little wonder researchers are looking to alternate forms of funding - one of which being crowdfunding.

H-index, citations, self-citations and other figures about Switzerland, based on Scopus data.