Some research topics are very specific within their fields, but research agencies general need to have broad statements and need to support all areas.
If we look closely to the amount of grants in number and volume of money, then we can have an idea about agencies priorities. But, (how) can bibliometric/scientometrics studies help in finding out trends in priorities?
It is know that it takes years for grant to became published papers. I have an example of looking at context, but this is not sufficient and there is no context.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/cdoe.12249/abstract
Hi,
The various databases within the Thomson Reuters world or science could help in detecting how much research is done in every country and in what discipline. The essential science indicator database ranks countries according to achievements in various sciences. If you limit the search by years of publication' you get the trend of science progress in any country, or a comparative study of several countries. The advancement of science in countries in these databases is measured by their publications, and citations. It is possible to guess, according to the advancements of various disciplines, which one is financed more by grants.
Dear Jane, I think that the bibliometric studues help in evaluating trends in the literature. However, I do prefer a non freddom search. It means that it is important to have a previous knowledge to improve the search
Dear Avishag and Gabriel,
If we run a search strategy in Web of Science or Scopus, we get the number of published articles in each year and country. I wonder if number of citations can help. Do you know of any means of correlating the themes with citation?
Also, I am not sure if grants are correctly informed in those databases, and if they are, we cannot get what was the purpose of the grant.
Do you know of any work on the effect of grants in specific or general research output?
Thanks.
Hi Roger,
Here are papers on the subject:
SCIENCE POLICY Debate sharpens over proposed criteria for NSF grants
By: Mervis, Jeffrey
SCIENCE Volume: 348 Issue: 6238 Pages: 956-956 Published: MAY 29 2015
Cross-disciplinary research: What configurations of fields of science are found in grant proposals today?
By: Mutz, Ruediger; Bornmann, Lutz; Daniel, Hans-Dieter
RESEARCH EVALUATION Volume: 24 Issue: 1 Pages: 30-36 Published: JAN 2015
SOCIAL SCIENCE Senator's Demands Freeze NSF Political Science Grants
By: Mervis, Jeffrey
SCIENCE Volume: 341 Issue: 6147 Pages: 703-703 Published: AUG 16 2013
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