Hype in medical research funding applications

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We analysed abstracts describing all research projects funded by the NIH during the period 1985 to 2020 for 'hype' adjectives. We published the findings of these analyses in JAMA Network Open (IF:13.37). The paper generated attention being picked up by news media organisations and the journal Science, and also being covered in a commentary piece in the same journal and an additional article in the Lancet. We conducted a follow up analysis of NIH funding announcements, which we have also published in JAMA Network Open. In addition we presented out work at two international conferences and submitted a linguistic analysis of our data to Applied Linguistics (IF: 4.6). We are constructing a dataset containing abstracts describing all research funded by the NIH during the same period.