Title
Learning the funding momentum of research projects
Abstract
In developing grant proposals for funding agencies like NIH or NSF, it is often important to determine whether a research topic is gaining momentum -- where by 'momentum' we mean the rate of change of a certain measure such as popularity, impact or significance -- to evaluate whether the topic is more likely to receive grants. Analysis of data about past grant awards reveals interesting patterns about successful grant topics, suggesting it is sometimes possible to measure the degree to which a given research topic has 'increasing momentum'. In this paper, we develop a framework for quantitative modeling of the funding momentum of a project, based on the momentum of the individual topics in the project. This momentum follows certain patterns that rise and fall in a predictable fashion. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to quantify the momentum of research topics or projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-20847-8_44
PAKDD (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
certain pattern,individual topic,funding agency,grant proposal,research topic,research project,interesting pattern,past grant award,certain measure,successful grant topic,funding momentum,technical stock analysis,classification,momentum
Actuarial science,Momentum (technical analysis),Data analysis,Computer science,Popularity,Momentum,Technical analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6635
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dan He113312.54
D. S. Parker2343.06