OBJECTIVES Although concerns over clinical research have been expressed, the governance of clinical research has been little studied. The aim was to describe research policy, volume, funding and concerns over clinical research in Finland. DESIGN A qualitative study and the data were collected from various sources, including documents, statistics and semistructured expert interviews. SETTING...

We analyze whether research funding contests promote co-authorship. Our analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on the Marsden Fund, premier source of for basic in New Zealand. use fixed-effect models to within-researcher-pair variation Among pairs who ever co-authored or co-proposed, co-authorship was 13.8 percentage points more likely a given year if they had co-proposed during...

There is information missing from funding section of this paper. The funding section should read: This article presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR) through a grant (SPHR-LIL-PH1-MCD) to the LiLaC collaboration between the University of Liverpool and Lancaster University. The views expressed are those of ...

PURPOSE Concerns regarding a decline in clinical research have been raised internationally. In this study, research initiatives and competitiveness of investigators seeking funding for clinical research were compared with those for three other health research themes in Canada, namely, biomedical, population-based, and health services research. METHODS A retrospective, multi-level descriptive ...

BACKGROUND A challenge facing science is how to renew and improve its relationship with society. One potential solution is to ensure that the public are more involved in the scientific process from the inception of research plans to scientific dissemination strategies. However, to date, little is known about how research funding bodies view public participation in research funding decisions, an...