EAGER: Assessing the Interdisciplinarity and Research Networking Impacts of the Human and Social Dynamics Priority Area Program

这个EAGER项目将测试一种新的方法来确定促进研究项目跨学科性的相对价值。具体来说，研究小组将调查人类和社会动力学（HSD）优先领域奖励的有效性。使用一种新颖的方法来测试HSD项目在促进跨学科、组织、机构和地理界限的研究方面的表现，该项目将检查研究团队和研究社区网络特征，并测量HSD研究人员发表的出版物的跨学科性。这个EAGER项目将支持探索性和潜在的变革性工作，以研究跨学科的观点。该项目将执行非传统的项目评估，以完善NSF研究的一个子集的跨学科性措施。使用HSD程序作为概念证明，PI将测试他的新方法。该项目还探索了可视化（绘制）此类研究的替代方法，它如何适应科学地图和社会网络动态。它还为这种评估探索新的数据来源，以设法确定特别富有成果的研究的特点，并在其他研究领域内外转移这种知识。预计该项目将产生更广泛的影响。如果概念证明是成功的，这个项目可能会导致一个非常令人兴奋的方法来评估跨学科研究的资金价值。本研究的结果应指出促进跨学科研究知识交流的途径。这一评估应该有助于指出哪些研究方法最能实现这种开创性的工作，并为丰富研究生培训计划提供见解，以增强年轻研究人员的网络和跨学科技能。

This EAGER project will test a novel method for determining the relative value of promoting interdisciplinarity of research projects. Specifically, the research team will investigate the effectiveness of the Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) priority area awards. Using a novel method to test how well the HSD program has been at stimulating research that crosses disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographic boundaries, this project will examine research teaming and research community networking characteristics, as well as measure the interdisciplinarity of publications by HSD researchers. This EAGER project will support exploratory and potentially transformative, work to study interdisciplinary perspectives. This project will perform non-traditional program evaluation in refining measures of the interdisciplinarity of a subset of NSF research. Using the HSD program as a proof ofconcept, the PI will test his novel methodologies. The project also explores alternative ways to visualize (map) such research, how it fits within the map of science, and social network dynamics. It also explores novel data sources for such assessments in seeking to ascertain the characteristics of especially fruitful research and the transfer of that knowledge across other research areas and beyond.Broader impacts of this project are expected to be strong. If the proof of concept is successful, this project could lead to a very exciting method for assessing the value of funding of interdisciplinary research. The findings of this research should point to ways to facilitate interdisciplinary research knowledge interchange. This assessment should help point to what researchapproaches best enable such groundbreaking work and offer insights to enrich graduate training programs to enhance young researchers' networking and interdisciplinary skills.