Global and regional research trends in AI through a scientific abstracts database
Bartłomiej Więckowski
Research Intelligence for CE Europe
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Peter Sondergaard said that information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine. Analysis based on features and data available in the biggest world neutral abstract database Scopus will help us answer questions regarding who and where is doing research in AI and support how to define their impact. We will go through all technologies assisting researchers in finding the best way to help decide where to publish a scientific paper, start a collaboration or define the most important areas.
Effectiveness of Polish and European Research Grants
Przemysław Kazienko
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
We propose WEIG – Wroclaw Effectiveness Indicator for Grants. This new scientometric measure is an aggregated quality measure of scientific papers published with the grant support (IF, AIS, IF%) divided by its budget. Projects from two public agencies were analysed utilising the WEIG measures: European Research Council (ERC) and National Science Centre, Poland (NSC). The studies revealed that NSC grants are overall more effective than ERC ones, constantly 2–3 times more for Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE). There are four NSC panels distinctively more efficient than their counterparts in ERC: Computer Science and Informatics (PE6), Mathematics (PE1), Fundamental Constituents of Matter (PE2), and Universe Sciences (PE9). The most efficient NSC funding schemes are Etiuda, Preludium, and Harmonia. The higher average effectiveness of programmes aimed at young scientists has been observed: the ERC Starting Grants have greater effectiveness than Advanced Grants.
Based on the above data we hypothesize that computer science (PE6) is underinvested by NSC compared to ERC. As a result, we strongly suggest increasing the number of grant submissions in this panel in order to the budget for computer science and informatics.
