Gaughan, M; et al. Using quasi-experimental design and the curriculum vitae to evaluate impacts of earmarked center funding on faculty... PROC. OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTL. CONF. OF THE ISSI, VOLS I AND II 305-313, 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

Email address: gaughan at uga.edu

Author(s): Gaughan, M (Gaughan, Monica); Ponomariov, B (Ponomariov, 
Bronco); Bozeman, B (Bozeman, Barry) 

Title: Using quasi-experimental design and the curriculum vitae to 
evaluate impacts of earmarked center funding on faculty productivity, 
collaboration, and grant activity 

Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF 

Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 
305-313, 2007 

Language: English 
Document Type: Article 

Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International-
Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics 

Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 

Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN 

Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & 
Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, 
Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ 
Carlos III Madrid 

Author Keywords: curriculum vitae analysis; academic career trajectories; 
multidisciplinary science senter 

KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; CAREERS 

Abstract: Academic research conducted within multidisciplinary science 
centers developed rapidly during the 1980s in response to several federal 
initiatives in the United States. In this study, we examine the effect of 
a Congressionally-mandated multidisciplinary center program on the careers 
of affiliated scientists. Important to the research evaluation design, we 
incorporate a control group of researchers who are not affiliated with 
these centers, but who work in the same scientific area. We collect 
curricula vitae from both groups, a data source that has been demonstrated 
to provide valid and reliable longitudinal data about academic 
productivity. We discuss the sampling and data collection methodology in 
detail, concluding that our sampling methodology worked well, while our 
initial attempt to collect CVs via the internet was not effective. 
Ultimately, we concluded that internet-based collection of CVs is not 
feasible; therefore we collected CVs directly from respondents via mail 
and email requests. In the analysis, we evaluate the impact of center 
affiliation on publication productivity, collaboration, and grants 
activity. We find that center affiliation tends to promote lower grant 
velocity, but greater levels of collaboration. These higher levels of 
collaboration increase publication productivity, but gains may be offset 
by the lower grants velocity. Overall, we find that centers-consistent 
with policy objectives-tend to foster funding stability and to increase 
collaborative interactions in the field. 
Addresses: Univ Georgia, Athens, GA 30606 USA. 
 
Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI 
Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 
2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM 

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