2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Hype in medical research funding applications
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21K02919
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
Millar Neil 筑波大学, システム情報系, 准教授 (70751981)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | corpus lingusitics / scientific writing / research funding / research ethics / biomedical language |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We analysed abstracts describing all research projects funded by the NIH during the period 1985 to 2020 for 'hype' adjectives. We published the findings of these analyses in JAMA Network Open (IF:13.37). The paper generated attention being picked up by news media organisations and the journal Science, and also being covered in a commentary piece in the same journal and an additional article in the Lancet. We conducted a follow up analysis of NIH funding announcements, which we have also published in JAMA Network Open. In addition we presented out work at two international conferences and submitted a linguistic analysis of our data to Applied Linguistics (IF: 4.6). We are constructing a dataset containing abstracts describing all research funded by the NIH during the same period.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
As described above, our results have generated interest in high impact journals. In addition, in order to address questions that have arisen in our analyses, we a currently constructing a dataset that was beyond the scope of about initial proposal.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We are constructing a corpus of all pubmed abstracts describing research funded by the NIH during the same period. We will analyse hype in the data and publish finding in both medical and linguistics journals.
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| Causes of Carryover |
A journal submission fee to be paid for using this grant was partly covered by an additional budget within the university, resulting in the amount to be used in the next fiscal year. We will use theses funds for towards additional journal submission fees.
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| Remarks |
The research generated interest in science media outlets - some examples above.
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Research Products
(10 results)
