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National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review
Assessing the Productivity of Grant Awards
We are interested in feedback from the scientific community on the most appropriate
procedure to calculate the productivity of grant awards.
Should each grant award listed on a paper ·get full credit for the RCR for that paper,
or should the RCRs be divided up between the different grant awards i n some way?
0 Give each grant listed equal, full credit.
0 Give each grant listed partial but equal credit.
O Give each g r a n t l i s t e d credit proportional to amount of the awards. For example, a n
award of $500,000 would get five times as m uch credit as an awa rd of $100,000.
O Give each g r a n t credit based on the position of the r e lated author on the author line.
For exam ple, awards from the first author should be more heavily weighted than awards from
middle authors.
0 Do not use bibliometric indices to measure the productivity of grant awards.
0 None of the above.

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What role should bibliometrics (publications and citations) play in assessing NIH grant
productivity and application potential?
0 None.
O Study their relevance.
O Use with other tools to evaluate the NIH review process and the productivity of grant awards.
0 Employ them to help guide peer review and/or funding decisions.
0 Give them a primary role in changing review procedures and making funding decisions.

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