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Am J Prev Med ; 42(2): 157-63, 2012 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22261212

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Large cross-disciplinary scientific teams are becoming increasingly prominent in the conduct of research. PURPOSE: This paper reports on a quasi-experimental longitudinal study conducted to compare bibliometric indicators of scientific collaboration, productivity, and impact of center-based transdisciplinary team science initiatives and traditional investigator-initiated grants in the same field. METHODS: All grants began between 1994 and 2004 and up to 10 years of publication data were collected for each grant. Publication information was compiled and analyzed during the spring and summer of 2010. RESULTS: Following an initial lag period, the transdisciplinary research center grants had higher overall publication rates than the investigator-initiated R01 (NIH Research Project Grant Program) grants. There were relatively uniform publication rates across the research center grants compared to dramatically dispersed publication rates among the R01 grants. On average, publications produced by the research center grants had greater numbers of coauthors but similar journal impact factors compared with publications produced by the R01 grants. CONCLUSIONS: The lag in productivity among the transdisciplinary center grants was offset by their overall higher publication rates and average number of coauthors per publication, relative to investigator-initiated grants, over the 10-year comparison period. The findings suggest that transdisciplinary center grants create benefits for both scientific productivity and collaboration.


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Cooperative Behavior , Efficiency, Organizational , Financing, Organized , Interdisciplinary Communication , Research , Smoking , Nicotiana
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Science ; 333(6045): 1015-9, 2011 Aug 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21852498

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We investigated the association between a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 applicant's self-identified race or ethnicity and the probability of receiving an award by using data from the NIH IMPAC II grant database, the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and other sources. Although proposals with strong priority scores were equally likely to be funded regardless of race, we find that Asians are 4 percentage points and black or African-American applicants are 13 percentage points less likely to receive NIH investigator-initiated research funding compared with whites. After controlling for the applicant's educational background, country of origin, training, previous research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10 percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding. Our results suggest some leverage points for policy intervention.


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Biomedical Research , Ethnicity , National Institutes of Health (U.S.)/economics , Racial Groups , Research Personnel , Research Support as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Black or African American/statistics & numerical data , Asian People/statistics & numerical data , Black People/statistics & numerical data , Databases, Factual , Education, Graduate , Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data , Fellowships and Scholarships , Financing, Government , Hispanic or Latino/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Likelihood Functions , Models, Statistical , Peer Review, Research , Publishing , Racial Groups/statistics & numerical data , Research Personnel/economics , Research Personnel/statistics & numerical data , United States , White People/statistics & numerical data
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Neuroreport ; 16(18): 2021-4, 2005 Dec 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16317346

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Transient coherent neural oscillations, as indicated by local field potentials, are thought to underlie key perceptual and cognitive events. We report a transient, state-dependent 50 Hz oscillation recorded from electrodes placed in the striatum of awake, behaving rats. These coherent oscillations, which we term gamma(50), occurred in brief (150 ms) events co-incident with the initiation of movement. On navigation tasks, the animal's speed increased dramatically at the precise moment of the gamma(50) event. This synchronous oscillation may provide a key to understanding striatal function, as well as basal ganglia pathology, which often impairs the control of voluntary movements.


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Corpus Striatum/physiology , Motor Activity/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Animals , Male , Rats
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