Doctoral Thesis Defense - September 12, 2014: Impact of Funding on Scientific Output and Collaboration

Ashkan Ebadi

Friday, September 12, 2014 at 10:00
Room EV001.162

You are invited to attend the following Doctoral Thesis Defence.

Supervisor: Dr. A. Schiffauerova

Examining Committee: Drs. M. Nokken (Chair), J.E. Niosi, K. Schmitt, J. Bentahar, C. Wang

Abstract

This dissertation reports the results of a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the inter-relations among research funding, scientific output, and collaboration. The research employed various methods and methodologies (i.e. data and text mining, statistical analysis, social network analysis, bibliometrics, survey data analysis, and visualization techniques) to investigate the impact of influencing factors on researchers’ performance, their amount of funding, and collaboration patterns. Moreover, a machine learning framework was suggested and validated for scientific evaluation of the researchers based on their productivity and level of funding. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) was selected as the source of funding in this research since it is the main federal funding.