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…