跨学科研究的成功率一直较低
Lindell Bromham1, Russell Dinnage1, Xia Hua1
1Research School of Biology, Australian National University, 116 Daley Road, Canberra 0200, Australia.
Nature
|July 1, 2016
概括
跨学科的研究对创新和气候变化等复杂问题至关重要, 研究表明,研究建议的跨学科性与获得资金的可能性较低相关.
科学领域:
- 研究资金分析
- 跨学科研究
- 图书统计学
背景情况:
- 跨学科研究对于创新和应对复杂的全球挑战至关重要.
- 与专业项目相比,跨学科研究的障碍是资助的可能性较低.
- 由于缺乏对资金数据的跨学科性进行量化评估,因此无法对此进行客观评估.
研究的目的:
- 量化评估研究建议的跨学科程度与其资助成功率之间的关系.
- 开发和应用一种用于测量研究建议的跨学科性.
- 在一个主要的国家资助计划中调查对跨学科研究的潜在偏见.
主要方法:
- 使用生物多样性指标 (平衡和差异) 来量化研究建议的跨学科性.
- 分析了澳大利亚研究委员会的发现计划在五年内提交的18476个提案.
- 使用统计分析来确定跨学科对资助概率的影响,控制合作数量和机构类型等因素.
主要成果:
- 发现跨学科程度与研究提案获得资助的可能性之间存在显著的负相关性.
- 即使考虑到合作者数量,主要研究领域和机构类型,跨学科性对资金成功的负面影响仍然存在.
- 这项研究提供了第一个大规模的定量证据,证明更多跨学科的研究建议不太可能获得资金.
结论:
- 这些发现挑战了跨学科研究在资助方面受到青的观点,
- 开发的跨学科距离指标为评估资金趋势和确定需要量身定制的提案提供了有价值的工具.
- 为了有效支持跨学科倡议,可能需要进一步的研究和潜在的融资策略调整.
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