Getting to the bottom of research funding: Acknowledging the complexity of funding dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Research funding is an important factor for public science. Funding may affect which research topics get addressed, and what research outputs are produced. However, funding has often been studied simplistically, using top-down or system-led perspectives. Such approaches often restrict analysis to confined national funding landscapes or single funding organizations and instruments in isolation. This overlooks interlinkages, broader funding researchers might access, and trends of growing funding complexity. This paper instead frames a 'bottom-up' approach that analytically distinguishes between increasing levels of aggregation of funding instrument co-use. Funding of research outputs is selected as one way to test this approach, with levels traced via funding acknowledgements (FAs) in papers

SUBMITTER: Aagaard K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8115833 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature