[Sigmetrics] Fwd: Is there a relationship between the sponsorship of research projects and the quality of their results?

[David Wojick]

My framework study on government funding-induced bias describes various Google Scholar searches on bias research in general. There is quite a lot, mostly looking at industry funding, especially in the biomedical community. Government based bias is a neglected research topic. In any case you might find the GS searches I point to useful.

See http://www.cato.org/publications/working-paper/government-buying-science-or-support-framework-analysis-federal-funding

David


> From: Barjak Franz <franz.barjak at fhnw.ch>
> Date: October 2, 2015 4:01:21 AM EDT
> To: "sigmetrics at mail.asis.org" <sigmetrics at mail.asis.org>
> Subject: [Sigmetrics] Is there a relationship between the sponsorship of research projects and the quality of their results?
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> Dear all,
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> On another mailing list the question popped up, whether research sponsored by corporate foundations produces systematically different (higher or lower quality, biased etc.) results than research sponsored, for instance, by public research councils or science foundations. This seems like a specific aspect of the wider question on how sponsorship relates to research quality. Posting this question on researchgate.net generated some rambling posts but rather little empirical evidence. Can anyone on this list point me to studies or articles investigating this question?
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> Thanks and kind regards,
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> Franz
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