Mapping the Global Cancer Research Funding Landscape.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global investment in research on noncommunicable diseases is on the rise. Cancer as primus inter pares draws particular interest from a wide spectrum of research funders. Next to the private, governmental, and academic sectors, philanthropy has carved out a sizeable area in the funding landscape over the last 25 years. Previous reports describing cancer research funding have looked at the volume of investment in cancer research but have paid little attention to building strategic intelligence on funders. Moreover, these efforts have focused primarily on well-resourced organizations, neglecting a large number of players with less-developed finances.

Methods

In this article, we combined gnostic data acquisition with agnostic bibliometrics to establish a comprehensiv

SUBMITTER: Schmutz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049992 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature