Interdisciplinary Networking Impact of the Research Coordination Network (RCN) program

研究协调网络 (RCN) 计划的跨学科网络影响

• 批准号: 0939622
• 负责人: Alan Porter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Search Technology Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0939622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Networking; Impact; Research; Coordination

Intellectual Merit: This project aims to gauge how effective Research Coordination Network (RCN) program awards have been at stimulating research that crosses disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographic boundaries. It examines research teaming and research community networking characteristics. It will measure how interdisciplinary articles generated by RCN researchers are. To accomplish these aims, the project will apply a range of bibliometric (i.e., counting research publication activity), text mining, statistical, and visualization methods to learn about the effects of RCN support. The main data being analyzed are abstract records of articles published by RCN researchers and by suitable comparison groups of researchers. Those articles will be separated into 'Before' and 'After' RCN project periods to help determine the effects of RCN support. This should help understand social and intellectual networking pattern evolution and cross-disciplinary research knowledge transfer mechanisms. Given the importance placed on interdisciplinary research processes in science today, such findings would be intellectually important for researchers and for research managers.Broader Impacts: The findings of this research should point to ways to facilitate interdisciplinary research knowledge interchange. This is intended to aid NSF in determining the effectiveness of the RCN program and possible ways to enhance this program?s goals. More broadly, it should offer insights to enrich graduate training programs to enhance young researchers? networking orientation and skills.

智力优势：该项目旨在衡量研究协调网络 (RCN) 计划奖项在刺激跨学科、组织、机构和地理边界的研究方面的有效性。它检查研究团队和研究社区网络特征。它将衡量 RCN 研究人员生成的跨学科文章的程度。为了实现这些目标，该项目将应用一系列文献计量（即统计研究出版活动）、文本挖掘、统计和可视化方法来了解 RCN 支持的效果。 分析的主要数据是 RCN 研究人员和适当的研究人员比较组发表的文章的摘要记录。 这些文章将分为 RCN 项目“之前”和“之后”两个阶段，以帮助确定 RCN 支持的效果。 这应该有助于理解社会和知识网络模式的演变以及跨学科研究知识转移机制。 鉴于当今科学中跨学科研究过程的重要性，这些发现对于研究人员和研究管理者来说具有重要的智力意义。更广泛的影响：这项研究的发现应该指出促进跨学科研究知识交流的方法。 其目的是帮助 NSF 确定 RCN 计划的有效性以及增强该计划目标的可能方法。 更广泛地说，它应该提供丰富的研究生培训计划以增强年轻研究人员的见解？网络方向和技能。