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Health Research Funding in Mexico: The Need for a Long-Term Agenda
Background The legal framework and funding mechanisms of the national health research system were recently reformed in Mexico. A study of the resource allocation for health... -
China’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research env...
In keeping with China’s President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream,” China has set a goal of becoming a world-class innovator by 2050. China’s higher education Science, Technology,... -
Understanding a successful obesity prevention initiative in children under 5 ...
Introduction/Background Systems thinking represents an innovative and logical approach to understanding complexity in community-based obesity prevention interventions. We... -
The Possible Role of Resource Requirements and Academic Career-Choice Risk on...
Many studies demonstrate that there is still a significant gender bias, especially at higher career levels, in many areas including science, technology, engineering, and... -
Relationship between Research Outcomes and Risk of Bias, Study Sponsorship, a...
Background Artificially sweetened beverage consumption has steadily increased in the last 40 years. Several reviews examining the effects of artificially sweetened beverages... -
Perception of the importance of chemistry research papers and comparison to c...
Chemistry researchers are frequently evaluated on the perceived significance of their work with the citation count as the most commonly-used metric for gauging this property.... -
Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research commu...
AbstractIn 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation launched a new program focused on incubating a new field, “Microbiology of the Built Environment” (MoBE). By the end of 2017, the... -
Economic sanctions and academia: Overlooked impact and long-term consequences
: Financial sanctions are often thought of as the "soft alternative" to armed conflict and are widely used in the 21st century. Nonetheless, sanctions are often criticized for... -
Using risk of bias domains to identify opportunities for improvement in food-...
PURPOSE: This retrospective cross-sectional study aimed to identify opportunities for improvement in food and nutrition research by examining risk of bias (ROB) domains.... -
Power-Laws and the Use of Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines
It is widely accepted that the (now reversed) Bush administration’s decision to restrict federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research to a few “eligible” hESC... -
On the advancement of highly cited research in China: An analysis of the High...
This study investigates the progress of highly cited research in China from 2001 to 2016 through the analysis of the Highly Cited database. The Highly Cited database, compiled... -
Most UK scientists who publish extremely highly-cited papers do not secure fu...
The UK is one of the largest funders of health research in the world, but little is known about how health funding is spent. Our study explores whether major UK public and... -
Capacity to conduct health research among NGOs in Malawi: Diverse strengths, ...
Background The role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in health research has attracted growing attention. NGOs are important service providers and advocates in... -
Predicting Scholars' Scientific Impact
We tested the underlying assumption that citation counts are reliable predictors of future success, analyzing complete citation data on the careers of ~150,000 scientists. Our... -
Peer review of health research funding proposals: A systematic map and system...
ObjectiveTo investigate methods and processes for timely, efficient and good quality peer review of research funding proposals in health. MethodsA two-stage evidence synthesis:... -
Attention to local health burden and the global disparity of health research.
Most studies on global health inequality consider unequal health care and socio-economic conditions but neglect inequality in the production of health knowledge relevant to... -
Using evidence when planning for trial recruitment: An international perspect...
INTRODUCTION: Recruiting participants to trials is challenging. To date, research has focussed on improving recruitment once the trial is underway, rather than planning... -
Associations between industry involvement and study characteristics at the ti...
Background Commercial or industry funding is associated with outcomes that favour the study funder in published studies, across various areas of research. However, it is... -
Fate of Clinical Research Studies after Ethical Approval – Follow-Up of Study...
BACKGROUND:Many clinical studies are ultimately not fully published in peer-reviewed journals. Underreporting of clinical research is wasteful and can result in biased estimates... -
The Domino Effects of Federal Research Funding
The extent to which federal investment in research crowds out or decreases incentives for investment from other funding sources remains an open question. Scholarship on research...
