The Effects of Research & Development Funding on Scientific Productivity: Academic Chemistry

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2015-09-15
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Rosenbloom, Joshua L.
Ginther, Donna K.
Juhl, Ted P.
Heppert, Joseph A.
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PLOS One
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Copyright: © 2015 Rosenbloom et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited All data are fully available without restriction at http://hdl.handle.net/1808​/18234 by DOI 10.17161/1808.18234.
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This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect is similar across subsets of universities, suggesting a relatively efficient allocation of R&D funds. Finally, we document a rapid acceleration in the rate at which chemical knowledge was produced in the late 1990s and early 2000s relative to the financial and human resources devoted to its production.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18441
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138176
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Rosenbloom JL, Ginther DK, Juhl T, Heppert JA (2015) The Effects of Research & Development Funding on Scientific Productivity: Academic Chemistry, 1990-2009. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0138176. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138176

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Copyright: © 2015 Rosenbloom et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited All data are fully available without restriction at http://hdl.handle.net/1808​/18234 by DOI 10.17161/1808.18234.
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as: Copyright: © 2015 Rosenbloom et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited All data are fully available without restriction at http://hdl.handle.net/1808​/18234 by DOI 10.17161/1808.18234.