Digital Science, a research-driven technology company serving scientific and research communities, and the University of the Arctic (UArctic) a co-operative network of more than 170 universities, colleges and research institutes concerned with higher education and research in and around the northern Arctic region, have entered into a joint strategic partnership to obtain new insights for Arctic-related research.
The two organisations will jointly conduct research and analysis based on global funding and publication data. This project is the first ever attempt to create a comprehensive view of global Arctic research funding using a dataset of such magnitude. The UArctic aims to build and strengthen collective resources and collaborative infrastructure by the provision of unique educational and research opportunities through collaboration within a powerful network of members.
As a result of the partnership, a Digital Science and UArctic Science & Research Analytics Task Force, formed expert group, led by Dr. Igor Osipov (FEFU), have co-authored a report, 'International Arctic Research – Analyzing Global Funding Trends' to assess the global funding landscape around Arctic-related research for the decade spanning 2006 – 2015. It will be presented to the Rectors and members at the UArctic Congress 2016, St Petersburg, Russia.
The report uses the funding data from the Dimensions dataset, created by Digital Science portfolio company ÜberResearch. It includes information from over 200 research funders on more than 2,500,000 projects with funding totalling $1 trillion US dollars. For this research, special attention was given to analysing trends in the countries of the Arctic Council as well as their key funding agencies and institutional members of the UArctic. Using sophisticated Natural Language Processing technology, a significant effort was made around creating and refining subject area categories and removing irrelevant grants that showed up in the searches.
According to the key findings of the pilot report, based on the available data, Arctic research accounts for approximately 1% of all funded research in the database; the proportion of funding dedicated to Arctic research is stable over time, at about 1%; "Earth Sciences" is the largest proportion of Arctic research funding, specifically due to funding attributed to 'Oceanography'; and approximately 50% of all global Arctic research represented in this funding data is undertaken by researchers from UArctic member institutions.
Two supplementary working papers have also been created - Arctic Altmetrics – Alternative Perspectives on the Impact of Arctic Research in conjunction with Altmetric, which tracks and analyses the online activity around scholarly literature; Arctic Research Publications – Scholarly Output Trends Using the Russian Index of Scientific Citations.
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