ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2022
NIH Funding, Research Productivity, and Scientific Impact: a 20-Year Study.
Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- A thirty-year trend of increasing clinical orientation at the National Institutes of Health.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Productivity of National Cancer Institute K Awardees and Their Transition to Independent Funding.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2025Article
- Provenance and Funding of Extremely Cited Biomedical Articles Published Between 2003 and 2024.JAMA health forum · 2025Article
- Assessing the quality of studies funded by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research, 2010-2020.Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- NIH funding for the pediatric surgeon-scientist: An analysis of current trends.Surgery open science · 2025Article
- Development and implementation of digital solutions in healthcare: insights from the Australian tertiary hospital landscape.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Research Project Grant (R01) is the oldest grant mechanism used by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Receiving an R01 award is often taken as a sign of scientific success. We presented normative data on multiple productivity and impact metrics for a more objective assessment of funded grants' scientific success.
methodsAll initial R01 grants awarded by NIH in the year 2000 were prospectively followed and evaluated using the numbers of publications and citations, as well as the h-indices at the grant level. We examined the variability, time trends, and relations among these metrics to better understand the funded projects' cumulative output and impact.
resultsIn the 20 years since initial funding, 4451 R01 grants generated a total of 55,053 publications. These publications were cumulatively cited 3,705,553 times over 736,811 citation years. The median number of publications was 8 (25
conclusionNumbers of publications, citations, and h-indices vary greatly among funded R01 grants. When used together, these metrics provide a more complete picture of the productivity and long-term impact of a funded grant.
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