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IIRC, Hungary has implemented something like this and it's been floated as an idea, to distribute grant dollars as a fixed amount to everyone who has an H index or citation count above a certain amount.

When I've talked about this with colleagues, they've argued this would make problems worse, and it might, but I think the idea was more that once you reach a certain threshold you should be funded some amount.

Of course, I'd argue that this is basically the idea behind tenure at an R1 institution, that once you reach a certain level the state or private board of trustees is paying your salary to do research. But nowadays tenure at an R1 institution is proxy for external grant dollars, which defeats the purpose and is redundant.

The real problem is indirect funds, which create profit for institutions. The federal government needs to eliminate indirect funds, so that grant dollars aren't perversely incentivised and tenure is based on research quality rather than profit.