How research funding agencies support science integration into policy and practice: An international overview

The productivity of researchers and the impact of the work they do are a preoccupation of universities, research funding agencies, and sometimes even researchers themselves. The h-index (h) is the most popular of different metrics to measure these activities. This research deals with presenting a practical approach to model the h-index based on the total number of citations (NC) and the duration from the publishing of the first article (D1). To determine the effect of every factor (NC and D1) on h, we applied a set of simple nonlinear regression. The results indicated that both NC and D1 had a significant effect on h ( p < 0.001). The determination of coefficient for these equations to estimate the h-index was 93.4% and 39.8%, respectively, which verified that the model based on NC had a better fit. Then, to record the simultaneous effects of NC and D1 on h, multiple nonlinear regression was applied. The results indicated that NC and D1 had a significant effect on h ( p < 0.001). Also, the determination of coefficient for this equation to estimate h was 93.6%. Finally, to model and estimate the h-index, as a function of NC and D1, multiple nonlinear quartile regression was used. The goodness of the fitted model was also assessed.

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How to Better Manage Tourism on Pandemic-Times? Moving Forward on a Discussion We Should Have Had Before the 2020 Crisis

10.20944/preprints202010.0487.v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Sinay ◽

Maria Cristina Fogliatti de Sinay

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Research Funding ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

The Novel ◽

Scholarly Community ◽

Pandemic Virus ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Travel Restrictions ◽

Novel Coronavirus

Taking advantage of tourists’ intensive flow, the SARS-CoV-2 virus rapidly spread causing thousands of deaths globally. Trying to contain the already pandemic virus, government travel restrictions were suddenly imposed. Consequently, the tourism industry, which at that moment employed one in ten workers globally, suddenly collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of workers immediately lost their income. Flights were cancelled, and thousands of tourists were stuck abroad with no means to return to their home countries. The gravity of the situation raised the question of whether there was scholarly knowledge that could have helped manage tourism during the current pandemic. To answer this question, a methodical literature review was performed, allowing for up to 900 publications to be analysed. Keywords used were pandemic, tourism, tourist and travel. Based on this process, 63 publications were selected for further analysis. Among these, less than 5% were focused on the tourism side of the problem. As such, this research concludes that, by the time the novel coronavirus emerged, there was, virtually, no scholarly knowledge on how to manage tourism during pandemic times so as to avoid chaos, and that the scholarly community studying related issues is very small. Moving forward, this article recommends that research funding agencies and universities encourage the sound development of this area of knowledge. Aspects that should be investigated include when, how and by whom should tourism be halted, as well as the feasibility of a Tourism World Fund for supporting related costs.

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The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198733522.013.41 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas König ◽

Michael E. Gorman

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Research Funding ◽

National Science Foundation ◽

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Public Research ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

The Us ◽

National Science ◽

The One ◽

The Eu

Public research funding agencies today are required to address proactively interdisciplinary research. “The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look Inside Public Research Funding Agencies” looks specifically at two funding agencies—the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the EU European Research Council (ERC)—and how these bodies promote interdisciplinarity, on the one hand, and how they claim to identify it, on the other. Inevitably, this gives the funding agencies some definition power over what interdisciplinary research actually is or should be. At the same time, there are organizational constraints that restrict the funding agencies’ capacity to fully embrace novel ways of interdisciplinary collaboration and investigation.

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International Funding and Collaboration in Sea Level Rise Research

Collaborative Knowledge in Scientific Research Networks - Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6567-5.ch005 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 76-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mayte López-Ferrer

Keyword(s):

Sea Level Rise ◽

Sea Level ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Research Funding ◽

Scientific Collaboration ◽

Research Area ◽

International Scientific Collaboration ◽

Thomson Reuters ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Scientific Papers

International collaboration and research funding in Sea Level Rise (SLR) research are investigated in this chapter. SLR can be taken as a paradigmatic research area to study the international scientific collaboration and research funding efforts because it is affecting the whole planet and is an interdisciplinary research area involving disciplines belonging to the geosciences but also the life sciences, technology sciences, and social sciences. The aim of the chapter is to identify the main stakeholders in the topic, institutions, and countries; analyze overlapping efforts; identify possible research gaps; and to study the role played by the funding agencies. Bibliometrics and a social network analysis approach are applied. Co-occurrence networks of keywords, affiliations, and funding agencies among scientific papers in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science Core Collection in the SLR topic are analyzed. Conclusions show that international scientific collaboration is common in SLR, but international co-financing is less frequent.

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Genetics of autism spectrum disorders

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780198713005.003.0028 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 270-278

Author(s):

Abha R. Gupta ◽

Thomas V. Fernandez ◽

Ellen J. Hoffman

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽

Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

Genetic Heterogeneity ◽

Research Funding ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Clinical Genetics ◽

Mendelian Disorders ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Genetic Technologies ◽

High Throughput Dna Sequencing

A revolution in genetic technologies and methods, such as high-throughput DNA sequencing, has enabled significant progress in identifying mutations in Mendelian disorders and complex diseases. Given the tremendous clinical and genetic heterogeneity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), similar progress for this disorder has been slower and more challenging, yet accelerating advancements have been made over the last decade. These advancements are due to the declining costs of genotyping and sequencing, as well as invaluable efforts by research-funding agencies, private foundations, research consortia, and affected families to increase collaboration and provide the critical resources and participation needed for this work. This chapter broadly reviews recent findings in the genetics of ASD, the importance of modelling ASD variants to bridge the genetics and neurobiology of ASD, and guidelines for clinical genetics testing in ASD.

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Alternative Research Funding Mechanisms

Start-Ups and SMEs ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1760-4.ch069 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1349-1363

Author(s):

David Osimo ◽

Laia Pujol Priego ◽

Riina Vuorikari

Keyword(s):

Communication Skills ◽

Research Funding ◽

The Core ◽

Alternative Funding ◽

Societal Challenges ◽

Science Funding ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Alternative Research ◽

Funding Mechanisms ◽

Flexible Funding

Funding affects how science is carried out. Over the last 50 years, the core of science funding has become competitive, project based and increasingly oriented towards societal challenges. Recently, alternative, more open and flexible funding mechanisms have emerged, such as crowdfunding, philanthropy and bottom-up mechanisms. This chapter analyses the development and implications of alternative funding mechanisms for science, through an umbrella literature review complemented by case studies. It concludes that alternative funding are an important component of research funding, which provides new opportunities especially for niche and unrecognized research, and require stronger communication skills by researchers. However, they can't and should not substitute traditional mechanisms. Researchers, institutions and funding agencies should redesign their activity accounting for a plurality of funding instruments, and facilitate collaboration between them.

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Policies to Promote Research and Innovation in Developing Countries’ Universities: The Case of Thailand

Indian Journal of Public Administration ◽

10.1177/0019556119840956 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (3) ◽

pp. 718-732 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sarintip Tantanee ◽

Phisut Apichayakul ◽

Panu Buranajarukorn ◽

Liwa Pardthaisong ◽

Chanida Suwanprasit ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Skill Acquisition ◽

Research Funding ◽

Online Survey ◽

Academic Staff ◽

Research Grants ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

Job Opportunities ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

International Collaborations ◽

New Knowledge

Research and Innovation (R&I) has played an important role in constructing new knowledge in higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide. There are both enabler and barrier factors on R&I capabilities in HEIs; therefore, this paper aims to investigate the importance, current contexts and gaps in R&I capacity building of Thai HEIs and the possibilities for improvement. Thirteen policymakers from HEI’s Authorities and Research Funding Agencies were interviewed in-depth. In addition, an online survey has been conducted with 172 university academic staff, who have been involved in R&I. The results show that the majority of respondents agree that R&I is very important; however, these activities have not been clearly supported by national policies. From the suggestions for improvement, the whole R&I supporting system, from the national to the HEIs levels, should be developed and improved through policy, skill acquisition and job opportunities, research grants and enhancing national and international collaborations.

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Analyzing Funding Patterns and Their Evolution in Two Medical Research Topics

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management ◽

10.1142/s0219877017400107 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (02) ◽

pp. 1740010

Author(s):

Blanca De-Miguel-Molina ◽

Scott W. Cunningham ◽

Fernando Palop

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Ovarian Cancer ◽

Medical Research ◽

Research Funding ◽

Medical Subject Headings ◽

Research Topics ◽

Breast And Ovarian Cancer ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Funding Agencies ◽

Cross National

This paper analyzes funding patterns and their evolution in two medical research topics: breast cancer and ovarian cancer, taking into account cross-agency and cross-national co-funding. A bibliometric analysis of 355[Formula: see text]463 papers from PubMed (273[Formula: see text]526 on breast cancer and 81[Formula: see text]937 on ovarian cancer) brought back 91 funding agencies involved in breast cancer and 65 in ovarian cancer. Additionally, the paper examined the evolution of medical subject headings (MESH) funded by agencies. An analysis of patterns in funding, co-funding, MESH, and their evolution, was carried out using social network analysis (SNA) methodology. The results show the importance of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in both breast and ovarian cancer. The NCI achieves its policy goals by co-funding its programs with both national and cross-national agencies. Moreover, the MESH agencies co-funded in the two years studied coincided; however, it must be said that the number of agencies which participated in research funding also increased.

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