The role of charitable funding in university research
The role of charitable funding in university research
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DOI：
10.1093/scipol/scz014
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Matthews, Nicholas E.
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作者：
Kundu, Oishee;Matthews, Nicholas E.
近几十年来，大学研究经费的来源已经多样化。虽然大量的研究努力探索和讨论了这种多样化的影响，但除了生物医学研究之外，慈善机构的作用通常被忽视，尽管它们在资助大学研究方面很重要。本文通过对博士生的资助，探讨慈善资助在学术研究中的意义。我们展示了一种赞助者分类策略，该策略根据赞助者类型对博士论文进行分类，具有很高的准确率和覆盖率。我们发现：1.慈善机构在资助博士生方面发挥着重要作用，特别是在医学研究方面；2.慈善机构在更广泛的研究赞助商网络中占有突出地位；3.他们在资助的学科方面表现出明显的偏好。通过这项研究产生的数据集提供了一个工具性资源，以启动关于这一重要研究资金来源的作用的更大讨论。
There has been a diversification in the sources of university research funding in recent decades. While substantial research efforts have explored and discussed the implications of this diversification, with the exception of biomedical research the role of charities has typically been neglected, despite their importance in funding university research. This article explores the significance of charitable funding in academic research through the sponsorship of doctoral students. We demonstrate a sponsor classification strategy which classifies PhD theses by sponsor type with high accuracy and coverage. We find that: 1. charities play a significant role in funding doctoral students particularly within medical research, 2. charities are prominent in the wider network of research sponsors, and 3. they exhibit distinct preferences in terms of the subjects they fund. The dataset generated through this study provides an instrumental resource to initiate greater discussion on the role of this important source of research funding.