This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $134,077 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research and collaboration at Michigan State University through January 31, 2024 under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The University of Kentucky Research Foundation is the awardee and will provide funding to support a research residency for a Principal Investigator and postdoctoral scholar. During the residency, they will collect field data through interviews and observations of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,284 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Regents of the University of Michigan Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as University of Michigan) to conduct a collaborative research study titled "HNDS-R: Stepping Out of Flatland: Complex Networks, Topological Data Analysis, and the Progress of Science." The 3-year project, beginning September 1, 2023, will use...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $249,119 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The 3-year grant, which commenced on September 1, 2023, will support collaborative research on how the increasing "burden of knowledge" required for scientific progress has slowed the pace...
This $276,839 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study examining the impact of non-science isolation practices on scientific production and collaboration. The research aims to deepen understanding of how national scientific systems are interconnected with global economic and political dynamics, providing insights on the effects of scientific cooperation across countries...
This $400,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to understand how socioeconomic heterogeneity within the U.S. scientific workforce impacts scientific discovery and innovation. The project aims to (i) create a unique individual-level dataset linking researcher socioeconomic backgrounds to scholarly topics, (ii) make an anonymized version of this dataset publicly available, (iii)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $259,129 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Trustees of Boston College. The grant supports a research project entitled "Collaborative Research: Science and Information Integrity: Strategies for Rebuilding Trust in Science". The project aims to advance theory and knowledge about enhancing the public value of scientific findings and scientific communities, and to offer...
This $265,102 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports collaborative research to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to investigate the causes behind the observed decline in innovative activity in science, which is vital for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. Using a novel mixed-method...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This $212,791 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports research aimed at understanding the incentives and constraints that influence scientists' willingness to pursue high-risk, high-return research projects. The researchers will develop and analyze mathematical models to examine how scientific norms, publication practices, and other factors impact scientists'...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $544,082 supports research to examine the structural barriers and facilitators for translating academic research to inform public policy. The study will elicit problem definitions and recommendations from decision-makers at public universities and research-funding philanthropies regarding how to improve the development of university-based infrastructure for research...