Enabling discoveries: a review of 30 years of advanced technologies and instrumentation at the National Science Foundation

Kurczynski, Peter; Milojević, Staša

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“…However, considering additional aspects could enrich the evaluation of impact. One aspect can be tied to a primary objective of these facilities, which is to aid the local and the international scientific community providing crucial instrumentation for their research (Börner et al, 2021;Cramer, 2017;ESRFI, 2018;Hallonsten, 2016Hallonsten, , 2020Kurczynski & Milojevic, 2020). As such, analyzing the geographical reach of such projects, which can be accomplished through the examination of the spatial properties of science using author affiliation links, can improve our understanding of impact (Bornmann & de Moya Angeon, 2019;Bornmann & de Moya-Aneg on, 2019;Calafiore et al, 2021;Csom os, 2018Csom os, , 2020Frenken, 2020;Frenken & Hoekman, 2014;Mandeville et al, 2022;Tiago et al, 2017).…”

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Global reach, regional strength: Spatial patterns of a big science facility

Söderström

2023

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The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), a leading facility in synchrotron science, plays a crucial role in supporting both the local and the international scientific community by providing advanced instrumentation for their research. However, our understanding of the actual reach of the facility and its spatial dynamics remains limited. Thus, a methodology is proposed where author affiliation links are processed, analyzed, and visualized. A case study that focuses on the ESRF is implemented, where the author affiliation links of 17,870 publications over the period 2011-2021 are processed, revealing 76,850 addresses, of which 11,120 are unique locations.The results of the case study bring to light robust patterns of increased internationalization over time, accompanied by regional agglomeration and the emergence of potential research hotspots. The methodology and results are likely to be of interest to researchers in Spatial Scientometrics, which addresses some of the current challenges in the field. Managers, funders, and policy-makers can utilize this method or similar approaches to enrich impact analyses of large-scale science facilities, vital for insuring their sustained support. The code for the methodology, as well as the interactive visualizations, is freely available on GitHub for further exploration and replication of the methodology.

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Section: Introduction 1| Background and Aimmentioning

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Global reach, regional strength: Spatial patterns of a big science facility

Söderström

2023

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“…Authors typically mention funding agencies and grant numbers within acknowledgements, leading to efforts to connect specific grants and amounts of funding directly to papers to evaluate research outcomes and return on investment. A few examples of this type of research include Kurczynski & Milojevic (2020), Larivière & Sugimoto (2018), and Tatsioni, Vavva & Ioannidis (2010). While acknowledgements and funding statements can be informative, this poster explores potential limitations of using funding data for research and policy through evidence gathered from a survey of authors of astronomy journal articles.…”

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On the Reliability of Funding Acknowledgements as Research Data: Evidence from Astronomy

Stahlman

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Online bibliographic databases have enabled new research through which bibliographic records are analyzed as data about science. Within these records, the acknowledgements sections of papers are often used to draw conclusions about funding support for published research. While acknowledgements and funding statements can be informative for research and policy development, this poster adds to a body of literature that highlights limitations of funding data for scientometric and policy research, using evidence gathered from a questionnaire of authors of astronomy journal articles. The study shows that only 71.4% of a sample of authors of papers tied to NSF grants through acknowledgements reported in the survey that NSF funded the research presented in the respective papers. A brief analysis of the questionnaire followed by recommendations and considerations for further research are presented. The discrepancy in reporting appears to indicate that funding streams can be fluid and not always apparent to authors, overall raising the question of what sorts of research should be addressed with funding statements, where conceptually tying a paper directly to a grant is not straightforward.

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Enabling discoveries: a review of 30 years of advanced technologies and instrumentation at the National Science Foundation

Cited by 2 publications

References 256 publications

Global reach, regional strength: Spatial patterns of a big science facility

Global reach, regional strength: Spatial patterns of a big science facility

On the Reliability of Funding Acknowledgements as Research Data: Evidence from Astronomy

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