Background Inadequate research capacity impedes the development of evidence-based health programming in sub-Saharan Africa. However, funding for research...

This paper establishes a structural typology of the organisational configurations of public research organisations which vary in their relative internal sharing of authority...

Bibliometric analysis techniques are increasingly being used to analyze and evaluate scientific research produced by institutions and grant funding agencies. This article uses...

Comments of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) on the evaluation report "Portfolio Evaluation: FWF International Programmes" (in English and German)

Abstract Africa is a continent facing severe, urgent, and often unique health challenges. At the same time, in most African countries, national research funding is very...

Background Little is known about who the main public and philanthropic funders of health research are globally, what they fund and how they decide what gets funded. This study...

[Background] In contrast to Newton's well-known aphorism that he had been able “to see further only by standing on the shoulders of giants,” one attributes to the Spanish...

The present evaluation focuses on the international programme portfolio of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). We assess the appropriateness of the portfolio as well as of its...

The effects of performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) are much debated (Aagaard & Schneider 2017). It is often assumed that PRFS create an increasing pressure to...

This week saw the welcome news that the federal government has committed to pursuing a national science strategy. Following a meeting on Monday with the Commonwealth Science...

Norway, Denmark and Finland use the “Norwegian model” of block-grant allocation that links national publication data to a weighted quality index of publication channels. In each...

Background Ideally, the allocation of research funding for each specific type of cancer should be proportional to its societal burden. This burden can be estimated with the...

Helsinki Initiative is a wake-up call for policy-makers, leaders, universities, research institutions, research funders, libraries, and researchers to promote multilingualism in...

The Academy of Finland is a major public research funding agency in Finland. Its tasks include funding scientific research, improving framework conditions for research, e.g....