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Evaluating the research activity and impact of funding agencies

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  • Marlie MacLean
  • Catherine Davies
  • Grant Lewison
  • Joe Anderson

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While the utility of assessing past research is widely recognised, few studies have focused on the funding body as the unit of evaluation. This study focused on individual funding bodies in one field of research, malaria: the results are presented of a survey of both the international financial inputs and the publications that resulted. Some major funding organisations obtained more apparent productivity from their investment than did others, although the leading funding bodies all supported papers that were more highly cited than the average for the field. The mean number of funding bodies acknowledged on more highly cited papers was greater than that for the complete set of papers, suggesting that the presence of multiple funding is positively correlated with citation performance. Other subjective methods of assessment involving surveys of expert opinion are also discussed. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Marlie MacLean & Catherine Davies & Grant Lewison & Joe Anderson, 1998. "Evaluating the research activity and impact of funding agencies," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 7(1), pages 7-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:7-16
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    1. Hayashi, Takayuki, 2003. "Effect of R&D programmes on the formation of university-industry-government networks: comparative analysis of Japanese R&D programmes," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(8), pages 1421-1442, September.
    2. Dzieżyc, Maciej & Kazienko, Przemysław, 2022. "Effectiveness of research grants funded by European Research Council and Polish National Science Centre," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 16(1).
    3. Nicola Grassano & Daniele Rotolo & Joshua Hutton & Frédérique Lang & Michael M. Hopkins, 2017. "Funding Data from Publication Acknowledgments: Coverage, Uses, and Limitations," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 68(4), pages 999-1017, April.
    4. Melika Mosleh & Saeed Roshani & Mario Coccia, 2022. "Scientific laws of research funding to support citations and diffusion of knowledge in life science," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(4), pages 1931-1951, April.
    5. Fernanda Morillo, 2019. "Collaboration and impact of research in different disciplines with international funding (from the EU and other foreign sources)," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 120(2), pages 807-823, August.
    6. Yongjun Zhang & Jialin Ma & Zijian Wang & Bolun Chen & Yongtao Yu, 2018. "Collective topical PageRank: a model to evaluate the topic-dependent academic impact of scientific papers," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 114(3), pages 1345-1372, March.

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