Category: Funding
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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…