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Science funding: Science for the masses

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  • Corie Lok

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The US National Science Foundation's insistence that every research project addresses 'broader impacts' leaves many researchers baffled. Corie Lok takes a looks at the system.

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  • Corie Lok, 2010. "Science funding: Science for the masses," Nature, Nature, vol. 465(7297), pages 416-418, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:465:y:2010:i:7297:d:10.1038_465416a
    DOI: 10.1038/465416a
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    1. Wu, Jiang, 2015. "Distributions of scientific funding across universities and research disciplines," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 183-196.
    2. Science & Justice Research Center (Collaborations Group), 2013. "Experiments in Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in Science and Justice," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-5, July.
    3. Cristian Mejia & Yuya Kajikawa, 2018. "Using acknowledgement data to characterize funding organizations by the types of research sponsored: the case of robotics research," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 114(3), pages 883-904, March.
    4. Huang, Ying & Porter, Alan L. & Cunningham, Scott W. & Robinson, Douglas K.R. & Liu, Jianhua & Zhu, Donghua, 2018. "A technology delivery system for characterizing the supply side of technology emergence: Illustrated for Big Data & Analytics," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 130(C), pages 165-176.
    5. Estelle Dumas-Mallet & André Garenne & Thomas Boraud & François Gonon, 2020. "Does newspapers coverage influence the citations count of scientific publications? An analysis of biomedical studies," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 123(1), pages 413-427, April.
    6. Wu, Dengsheng & Yuan, Lili & Li, Ruoyun & Li, Jianping, 2018. "Decomposing inequality in research funding by university-institute sub-group: A three-stage nested Theil index," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 1312-1326.
    7. Jianping Li & Yongjia Xie & Dengsheng Wu & Yuanping Chen, 2017. "Underestimating or overestimating the distribution inequality of research funding? The influence of funding sources and subdivision," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 112(1), pages 55-74, July.

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