Analysis on Impact of NIH Research
“Metrics Association with NIH Funding: A High-Level View” is now available here. It’s an analysis of grant-to-grant linkages, using PubMed/RePORTER data, and looks at the citation/publication impact of NIH funded research. The article concludes that publications funded by PHS receive twice as many citations as those that do not acknowledge a federal funding source, which the authors extrapolate to mean, “the U.S. PHS is effective at funding research with higher than average impact.” Some additional findings: the median lag time between receiving a grant and publication is three years; each grant (averaged across all types of research awards) contributes an average of 1.7 publications; and grants that acknowledge funding from both a PHS and non-governmental source have 40% more citations than those that receive federal funding alone.