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International Conference Management Technology, 2013
Rapporten ar skriven pa engelska med svensk sammanfattning, och presenterar en bibliometrisk utva... more Rapporten ar skriven pa engelska med svensk sammanfattning, och presenterar en bibliometrisk utvardering av sju av Naturvardsverkets forskningsprograms vetenskapliga publicering. Sammantaget citera ...
The effect of institutional proximity (defined as the applicant having the same current and/or fu... more The effect of institutional proximity (defined as the applicant having the same current and/or future institutional affiliation as one of the panelists) is measured. We find that the probability to get funded increases significantly. At the same time, the effect differs between disciplines and countries, and men profit more of it than women do.
Forskare arbetar i allt storre utstrackning i tvarvetenskapliga projekt. I rapporten analyseras d... more Forskare arbetar i allt storre utstrackning i tvarvetenskapliga projekt. I rapporten analyseras dels varfor forskningen utvecklas pa detta satt, dels hur forskningsfinansiarer arbetar for att understödja tvärvetenskapliga initiativ.
Rapporten är ett resultat av ett projekt som genomförts på analysenhetn vid Vetenskapsrådet. Docent Ulf Sandström har varit projektledare och är huvudförfattare.
A vicious circle of gender bias has meant differences between men's and women's scholarly product... more A vicious circle of gender bias has meant differences between men's and women's scholarly productivity have not changed since the 1960s Gender differences in scholarly productivity have proved a persistent problem. But to what extent is the situation improving for younger generations of female academics? Ulf Sandström and Peter van den Besselaar report on research showing that overall productivity for female researchers is about two thirds of male productivity, a ratio that had actually already been established by the end of the 1960s and has remained stable ever since. Gender influences female researchers' academic rank, role in research teams and networks, and likelihood of being awarded funding. This then has a negative effect on their productivity, which in turn reinforces their lower status and position. This vicious circle means career differences will not simply diminish over time.
Nepotism or cronyism is an important issue, as the expectation is that grants are given to the be... more Nepotism or cronyism is an important issue, as the expectation is that grants are given to the best researchers, and not to applicants that are socially, organizationally, or topicwise near the decision-makers. We investigate the effect of organizational proximity (defined as the applicant having the same current and/or future institutional affiliation as one of the panel members) on the probability of getting a grant. We start with analyzing various aspects of this form of cronyism: Who gains from it? Does it have a gender dimension? Can it be explained by performance differences between applicants or between organizations? We do find that the probability to get funded increases significantly for those that have a near-by panelist from the host institution. At the same time, the effect differs between disciplines and countries, and men profit more of it than women do.
Forskningspolitikk Utg Av Navf S Utredningsinstitutt, 2004
International Conference Management Technology, 2013
Rapporten ar skriven pa engelska med svensk sammanfattning, och presenterar en bibliometrisk utva... more Rapporten ar skriven pa engelska med svensk sammanfattning, och presenterar en bibliometrisk utvardering av sju av Naturvardsverkets forskningsprograms vetenskapliga publicering. Sammantaget citera ...
The effect of institutional proximity (defined as the applicant having the same current and/or fu... more The effect of institutional proximity (defined as the applicant having the same current and/or future institutional affiliation as one of the panelists) is measured. We find that the probability to get funded increases significantly. At the same time, the effect differs between disciplines and countries, and men profit more of it than women do.
Forskare arbetar i allt storre utstrackning i tvarvetenskapliga projekt. I rapporten analyseras d... more Forskare arbetar i allt storre utstrackning i tvarvetenskapliga projekt. I rapporten analyseras dels varfor forskningen utvecklas pa detta satt, dels hur forskningsfinansiarer arbetar for att understödja tvärvetenskapliga initiativ.
Rapporten är ett resultat av ett projekt som genomförts på analysenhetn vid Vetenskapsrådet. Docent Ulf Sandström har varit projektledare och är huvudförfattare.
A vicious circle of gender bias has meant differences between men's and women's scholarly product... more A vicious circle of gender bias has meant differences between men's and women's scholarly productivity have not changed since the 1960s Gender differences in scholarly productivity have proved a persistent problem. But to what extent is the situation improving for younger generations of female academics? Ulf Sandström and Peter van den Besselaar report on research showing that overall productivity for female researchers is about two thirds of male productivity, a ratio that had actually already been established by the end of the 1960s and has remained stable ever since. Gender influences female researchers' academic rank, role in research teams and networks, and likelihood of being awarded funding. This then has a negative effect on their productivity, which in turn reinforces their lower status and position. This vicious circle means career differences will not simply diminish over time.
Nepotism or cronyism is an important issue, as the expectation is that grants are given to the be... more Nepotism or cronyism is an important issue, as the expectation is that grants are given to the best researchers, and not to applicants that are socially, organizationally, or topicwise near the decision-makers. We investigate the effect of organizational proximity (defined as the applicant having the same current and/or future institutional affiliation as one of the panel members) on the probability of getting a grant. We start with analyzing various aspects of this form of cronyism: Who gains from it? Does it have a gender dimension? Can it be explained by performance differences between applicants or between organizations? We do find that the probability to get funded increases significantly for those that have a near-by panelist from the host institution. At the same time, the effect differs between disciplines and countries, and men profit more of it than women do.
Forskningspolitikk Utg Av Navf S Utredningsinstitutt, 2004
The Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) fellowship scheme aims, as a part of the European framew... more The Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) fellowship scheme aims, as a part of the European framework programmes, to promote scientific excellence, mobility and research collaboration in the European Research Area. As most elements on the EU Framework Programmes, it also aims to widen capacity development throughout the EU in Member States with different levels of scientific development. This report analyses the mobility, publication and international co-publication
behaviour of a group of European researchers that have taken part in the Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) Fellowship schemes. It compares researchers that received their PhD from organisations in two groups of countries before and after being granted the fellowship.
The first group of countries (from North-Western Europe: FPIC receives a relatively large share of their research funding budget from the European Framework Programmes and a relatively low share from the European Structural and Investment Funds. The second group of countries (from
South and Eastern European: ESIFIC) presents a lower Framework Programme funding intensity but the Funding intensity of the European Structural and Investment Funds is higher. The funding intensity levels associated with these broad programmes are taken as an indication of the level of scientific development. It strongly correlates with the average impact of the publications made by researchers in these countries. Also relevant to this analysis is that the first group of countries tend to host more MSCA fellows than they send whereas the reverse holds for the second group group.
The analysis measures performance as the sum of the citation impact of a researchers publications. Before the grant one observes a difference between the performance of applicants from South and Eastern Europe (ESIFIC) on the one hand and those from North Western Europe (FPIC) on the other. Over time the median performance gap disappears: there is convergence in the medianperformance of researchers from the two
country groups. However due to a larger number of outliers (top performers) in North Western European countries there remains a difference in the average performance.
When comparing MSCA applicants with other grant schemes, one finds that the MSCA applicants perform well before and after the grant - though as expected below the performance of researchers funded by the highly selective ERC junior grant which tend to be more senior. The MSCA applicants show a marked improvement after the grant in comparison to before. This in contrast to a similar national individual fellowship in an EU MS.
Post grant performance is mainly correlated to pre-grant performance. One does not find a significant correlation with the quality of the research environment (as proxied by citation impact of the host organisation). This is surprising because the quality of the host environment is an explicit selection criterium. Post grant international collaboration behaviour is mainly correlated to pre-grant international
collaboration: it appears as if the well connected remain well connected also after being funded.
What we did find was that after the grant a considerable share of the increase in co-authored high impact papers are co-published with researchers from North Western Europe: this suggests the
MSCA mobility experience leads to productive research links.
This book from 1994 depicts the Swedish Building Research Council (BFR) as an organization and re... more This book from 1994 depicts the Swedish Building Research Council (BFR) as an organization and research funding body in relation to research policy and public policy issues during the period 1960-1992. Six years after the publication of the book, BFR was dismantled due to changes in the Swedish research organization and the end of the traditional sectorial research policy. In the present slightly revised edition, some sections considered to be of lesser interest have been removed and minor language adjustments have been made.
In 2010, all research at Örebro University has been the subject of an external evaluation, ÖRE201... more In 2010, all research at Örebro University has been the subject of an external evaluation, ÖRE2010. In the report there is presented in Part 1 background, planning and implementation of the evaluation process. In Part 2 of the report presents the evaluation panels' assessments
of the total of 37 evaluation units audited. Part 3 consists of a extensive bibliometric analysis of the production and quality of research in each unit.
