Evaluating Impact of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Social Science: An NSF RAPID Proposal

这项研究将开发一个由美国复苏和再投资法案资助的社会科学项目的投资和成果的数据库。该数据库将由大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)开发，该联盟在近50年的数据传播和保存方面一直处于领先地位。智力价值这一基础设施的发展将有助于确保能够了解和评估由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》资助的社会科学研究和数据生产投资的影响。这样一个数据库将帮助学者更广泛地评估他们对经济变化、科学政策制定和创新社会科学研究的贡献。这种方法的一个新特点是，它使学者能够通过出版物、引文、向政策制定者介绍等方式来审查研究项目及其产品的整个生命周期。PIs使用文献计量学分析和与主要调查人员的调查相结合的方式来获得研究影响的多维性质。该项目将利用用于成功跟踪其他项目研究产出的核心技术和工作人员。广泛影响主要影响来自作为ICPSRs档案资料的一部分出版和保存的成果指标数据库。此外，通过获取ARRA资助的研究数据并向科学界传播，可以进行各种二次分析、复制和报告。

This research will develop a database of the investments in and outcomes of social science projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act., The database will be developed by the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which has been a leader in data dissemination and preservation for nearly five decades. Intellectual MeritThe development of this infrastructure will help ensure that it will be possible to understand and evaluate the impact of investments in social science research and data production funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Such a database will help scholars evaluate their contribution to economic change, to the making of science policy, and to innovative social science research more broadly.A novel feature of the approach is that it enables scholars to examine the entire life cycle of a research project and its products through publications, citations, presentations to policymakers, and other means. The PIs use a combination of bibliometric analysis and surveys with principal investigators to get at the multidimensional nature of research impact. This project will leverage the core technologies and staff that have been used to successfully track research outputs for other projects.Broader ImpactThe major impact derives from the database of outcome indicators published and preserved as part of ICPSRs archival holdings. In addition, the acquisition and dissemination of the ARRA-funded research data to the scientific community permits a wide variety of secondary analyses, replication, and reporting.