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Complex Network Analysis of Research Funding: A Case Study of NSF Grants

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Funding from the government agencies has been the driving force for the research and educational institutions particularly in the United States. The government funds billions of dollars every year to lead research initiatives that will shape the future. In this chapter, we analyze the funds distributed by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), a major source of academic research funding, to understand the collaboration patterns among researchers and institutions. Using complex network analysis, we interpret the collaboration patterns at researcher, institution, and state levels by constructing the corresponding networks based on the number of grants collaborated at different time frames. Additionally, we analyze these networks for small, medium, and large projects in order to observe collaboration at different funding levels. We further analyze the directorates to identify the differences in collaboration trends between disciplines. Sample networks can be found at http://www.cse.unr.edu/~mgunes/ NSFCollaborationNetworks/.

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    An earlier version of this study appeared in [27].

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  1. inome Inc, 500 108th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98005, USA

    Hakan Kardes

  2. Intel Corporation, 2501 NW 229th Ave, Hillsboro, OR, 97124, USA

    Abdullah Sevincer

  3. University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N Virginia Street, Reno, NV, 89557, USA

    Mehmet Hadi Gunes & Murat Yuksel

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Turkey

    Fazli Can

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, TOBB University, Sogutozu Ankara, Turkey

    Tansel Özyer

  3. Department of Computer Engineering University Campus, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Faruk Polat

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Kardes, H., Sevincer, A., Gunes, M.H., Yuksel, M. (2014). Complex Network Analysis of Research Funding: A Case Study of NSF Grants. In: Can, F., Özyer, T., Polat, F. (eds) State of the Art Applications of Social Network Analysis. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05912-9_8

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