Interdisciplinary Networking Impact of the Research Coordination Network (RCN) program

智力价值：这个项目旨在评估研究协调网络(RCN)计划奖在激励跨越学科、组织、机构和地理边界的研究方面的有效性。它考察了研究团队和研究社区的网络特征。它将衡量RCN研究人员产生的跨学科文章的程度。为了实现这些目标，该项目将应用一系列文献计量学(即统计研究出版活动)、文本挖掘、统计和可视化方法，以了解区域网络支持的效果。被分析的主要数据是RCN研究人员发表的论文的摘要记录和适当的研究人员对照小组。这些文章将被分为“之前”和“之后”的RCN项目期，以帮助确定RCN支持的效果。这应该有助于理解社会和智力网络模式的演变和跨学科研究的知识转移机制。鉴于当今科学中对跨学科研究过程的重视，这样的发现对研究人员和研究管理者来说将具有重要的智力意义。广泛的影响：这项研究的结果应该指出促进跨学科研究知识交流的方法。这是为了帮助国家科学基金会确定RCN计划的有效性以及提高该计划的可能方法--S目标。更广泛地说，它应该提供见解，以丰富研究生培训计划，以提高年轻研究人员？人际关系网的定位和技能。

Intellectual Merit: This project aims to gauge how effective Research Coordination Network (RCN) program awards have been at stimulating research that crosses disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographic boundaries. It examines research teaming and research community networking characteristics. It will measure how interdisciplinary articles generated by RCN researchers are. To accomplish these aims, the project will apply a range of bibliometric (i.e., counting research publication activity), text mining, statistical, and visualization methods to learn about the effects of RCN support. The main data being analyzed are abstract records of articles published by RCN researchers and by suitable comparison groups of researchers. Those articles will be separated into 'Before' and 'After' RCN project periods to help determine the effects of RCN support. This should help understand social and intellectual networking pattern evolution and cross-disciplinary research knowledge transfer mechanisms. Given the importance placed on interdisciplinary research processes in science today, such findings would be intellectually important for researchers and for research managers.Broader Impacts: The findings of this research should point to ways to facilitate interdisciplinary research knowledge interchange. This is intended to aid NSF in determining the effectiveness of the RCN program and possible ways to enhance this program?s goals. More broadly, it should offer insights to enrich graduate training programs to enhance young researchers? networking orientation and skills.