Exploring the cost-efficiency of basic research funding in chemistry

Averch, Harvey A.

doi:10.1016/0048-7333(89)90004-8

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“…Our data show that the high IF journals are losing their stronghold as the sole repositories of high‐quality papers, so there is no legitimate basis for extending the IF of a journal to its papers, much less to individual researchers. Moreover, given that researchers can be evaluated using a variety of other criteria and bibliometric indicators (e.g., Averch, ; Leydesdorff & Bornmann, ; Lozano, ; Lundberg, ; Põder, ), evaluating researchers by simply looking at the IFs of the journals in which they publish is both naive and uninformative.…”

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The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age

Lozano

Larivière

Gingras

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Historically, papers have been physically bound to the journal in which they were published; but in the digital age papers are available individually, no longer tied to their respective journals. Hence, papers now can be read and cited based on their own merits, independently of the journal's physical availability, reputation, or impact factor (IF). We compare the strength of the relationship between journals' IFs and the actual citations received by their respective papers from 1902 to 2009. Throughout most of the 20th century, papers' citation rates were increasingly linked to their respective journals' IFs. However, since 1990, the advent of the digital age, the relation between IFs and paper citations has been weakening. This began first in physics, a field that was quick to make the transition into the electronic domain. Furthermore, since 1990 the overall proportion of highly cited papers coming from highly cited journals has been decreasing and, of these highly cited papers, the proportion not coming from highly cited journals has been increasing. Should this pattern continue, it might bring an end to the use of the IF as a way to evaluate the quality of journals, papers, and researchers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age

Lozano

Larivière

Gingras

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

238

153

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“…Other studies that examine the funding-output link at the level of the individual researcher tend to find small positive effects (Arora and Gambardella, 2005;Averch, 1987Averch, , 1989. However, these studies recognize the potential for selection bias, which would lead them to overstate the true impact of grant receipt.…”

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The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

Jacob

Lefgren

2007

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In this paper, we estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications and citations. Our sample consists of all applications (unsuccessful as well as successful) to the NIH from 1980 to 2000 for standard research grants (R01s). Both OLS and IV estimates show that receipt of an NIH research grant (worth roughly $1.7 million) leads to only one additional publication over the next five years, which corresponds to a 7 percent increase. The limited impact of NIH grants is consistent with a model in which the market for research funding is competitive, so that the loss of an NIH grant simply causes researchers to shift to another source of funding.

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“…Other studies that examine the funding-output link at the level of the individual researcher tend to find small positive effects (Arora and Gambardella, 2005; Averch, 1987, 1989). However, these studies recognize the potential for selection bias, which would lead them to overstate the true impact of grant receipt.…”

Section: Prior Literaturementioning

confidence: 97%