February 18, 2022
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Nagoya University
National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Keio University
A research group, including Project Lecturer Takeya Adachi of the Department of Medical Regulatory Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; Lecturer Yasushi Ogawa of the Department of Advanced Medicine, Nagoya University Hospital; graduate student Jun Hirako of the Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University; Project Professor Shu Koizumi of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences; and Project Professor Masako Toriya of the Keio University Global Research Institute, has conducted a research impact analysis on the outcomes of international research grant programs in the field of immunology and allergy.
For the first time in the immunology and allergy field, this study internationally and multidimensionally compared the outcomes of research grants. It evaluated the research from Japan, Europe, and the US not only by the quantity and quality of papers but also by the "depth of research" and whether the findings reached a wide audience, including academia, the media, patients, and students. Additionally, to grasp the characteristics of the research outcomes being produced, the study conducted "natural language processing" of paper abstracts and other analyses, clarifying the strengths and weaknesses of the outcomes from Japan's research grant programs.
A paper on this research was published in the scientific journal "Allergy" on February 18, 2022 (Japan Standard Time).
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