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Ma A, Mondragón RJ, Latora V. Anatomy of funded research in science. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015;112(48):14760-5doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513651112.
Ma, A., Mondragón, R. J., & Latora, V. (2015). Anatomy of funded research in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(48), 14760-5. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513651112
Ma, Athen, et al. "Anatomy of funded research in science." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 112,48 (2015): 14760-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513651112
Ma A, Mondragón RJ, Latora V. Anatomy of funded research in science. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 01;112(48):14760-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513651112. Epub 2015 Oct 26. PMID: 26504240; PMCID: PMC4672826.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 01;112(48):14760-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513651112. Epub 2015 Oct 26.

Anatomy of funded research in science.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Athen Ma, Raúl J Mondragón, Vito Latora

Affiliations

  1. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom;
  2. School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom; Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica, I-95123 Catania, Italy [email protected].

PMID: 26504240 PMCID: PMC4672826 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513651112

Abstract

Seeking research funding is an essential part of academic life. Funded projects are primarily collaborative in nature through internal and external partnerships, but what role does funding play in the formulation of these partnerships? Here, by examining over 43,000 scientific projects funded over the past three decades by one of the major government research agencies in the world, we characterize how the funding landscape has changed and its impacts on the underlying collaboration networks across different scales. We observed rising inequality in the distribution of funding and that its effect was most noticeable at the institutional level--the leading universities diversified their collaborations and increasingly became the knowledge brokers in the collaboration network. Furthermore, it emerged that these leading universities formed a rich club (i.e., a cohesive core through their close ties) and this reliance among them seemed to be a determining factor for their research success, with the elites in the core overattracting resources but also rewarding in terms of both research breadth and depth. Our results reveal how collaboration networks organize in response to external driving forces, which can have major ramifications on future research strategy and government policy.

Keywords: brokerage; collaboration networks; network core; rich club; success in science

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