Category: Funding
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Exploring funding patterns with word embedding-enhanced organization–topic networks: a case study on big data
Understanding the complex patterns in research funding plays a fundamental role in comprehensively revealing funding preferences and informing ideas for future strategic innovation. This is especially true when the funding policies need to be constantly shifted to accommodate highly complex and ever-changing demands for technological, economic, and social development. To this end, we investigate the…
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The effect of competitive public funding on scientific output: A comparison between China and the EU
Public funding is believed to play an important role in the development of science and technology. However, whether public funding and, in particular, competitive funding from public agencies actually helps to increase scientific output (i.e. publications) remains a matter of debate. By analysing a dataset of co-publications between China and the EU and a dataset…
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Neglected tropical diseases in Brazil: lack of correlation between disease burden, research funding and output
Objectives To assess the correlation between the burden of seven priority neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) included in the Brazilian National Agenda of Priorities in Health Research – tuberculosis, Chagas disease, leprosy, malaria, leishmaniasis, dengue and schistosomiasis – and their respective research funding and output. Methods This retrospective review obtained data on disease burden from the…
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Do national funding organizations properly address the diseases with the highest burden? – Observations from China and the UK (Full-Text)
Recent years have witnessed an incipient shift in science policy from a focus mainly on academic excellence to a focus that also takes into account “societal impact”. This shift raises the question as to whether medical research has given proper attention to the diseases imposing the greatest burden on society. Therefore, with the aim of…
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How Does National Scientific Funding Support Emerging Interdisciplinary Research: A Comparison Study of Big Data Research in the US and China
How do funding agencies ramp-up their capabilities to support research in a rapidly emerging area? This paper addresses this question through a comparison of research proposals awarded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in the field of Big Data. Big data is characterized by its…
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Funding Data from Publication Acknowledgements: Coverage, Uses and Limitations
This article contributes to the development of methods for analysing research funding systems by exploring the robustness and comparability of emerging approaches to generate funding landscapes useful for policy making. We use a novel dataset of manually extracted and coded data on the funding acknowledgements of 7,510 publications representing UK cancer research in the year 2011 and compare these…
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Topic analysis and forecasting for science, technology and innovation: Methodology with a case study focusing on big data research
Highlights Data-driven clustering approach to group topics with high accuracy Similarity measure approach to trace the interaction between topics in time series Analyzing changes of TFIDF values of related topics to predict future trends Technology Roadmapping to blend historical analysis and expert-based forecasting The number and extent of current Science, Technology & Innovation topics are…
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The Impact of Research Funding on Scientific Outputs: Evidence from Six Smaller European Countries
We investigate the relationships between the citation impacts of scientific papers and the sources of funding which are acknowledged as having supported those publications. We examine several relationships potentially associated with funding including first citation, total citations and the chances of becoming highly cited. Furthermore, we explore evidence on the links between citations and types…
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Upgrading the Quality of Science: Does Funding Source Matter?
Extended Abstract – MINING NOVEL DATA SOURCES session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Abdullah Gök and Philip Shapira (University of Manchester) This paper examines the effect of differential and multiple funding on the quality of science in the Czech Republic. We explore several propositions. Firstly, we investigate whether European Union research sponsorship is…
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Funding Acknowledgement Analysis – An Enhanced Tool to Investigate Research Sponsorship Impacts
Extended Abstract – MINING NOVEL DATA SOURCES session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011 Author(s): Jue Wang (Florida International University) and Philip Shapira (University of Manchester) There is increasing interest in assessing how sponsored research funding influences the development and trajectory of science and technology. Traditionally, linkages between research funding and subsequent results are hard to track, often…