marsden-networks

This repository contains the source material for "Research Funding and Collaboration."

Workflow

We generate figures and tables by running code/analysis.R in an marsden-networks.Rproj instance within RStudio.

Data

Our analysis combines Scopus publication records with data on Marsden Fund proposals. We exclude our data from this repository because they contain sensitive information about Marsden Fund applicants.

Our combined ("linked") data form a relational database. We describe the files in that database in the tables below.

Files

File	Variables	Description
asjc_crosswalk	field, field_desc, field_group, field_group_desc, subject_area, subject_area_desc	Crosswalk between All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) fields, field groups, and subject areas
authorships	aff_country, prsn, pub	Table linking researchers in linked data to their publications and countries of affiliation
authorships_full	aff_country, auth, pub	Table linking Scopus authors in raw data to their publications and countries of affiliation
countries	aff_country, aff_country_desc, aff_country_tag	Table of country of affiliation codes, names, and tags
matches	auth, prsn	Table of applicant-author pairs included in linked data
matches_full	auth, prsn, source	Table linking matched applicant-author pairs to match sources
mean_citations	field, mean_n_citations, pub_year	Global mean citations accrued to Scopus publications, aggregated by publication year and ASJC field
people	prsn, prsn_forename, prsn_gender, prsn_initials, prsn_is_maori prsn_is_nzl_based, prsn_surname	Table of attributes of researchers included in linked data
people_full	See people	Table of attributes of Marsden Fund applicants included in raw data
proposals	prop, prop_is_contracted, prop_is_fast_start, prop_max_round, prop_year	Table of attributes of Marsden Fund proposals linked to researchers in linked data
proposals_full	See proposals	Table of attributes of Marsden Fund proposals in raw data
publications	pub, pub_n_auth, pub_n_citations, pub_n_nzl_auth pub_type, pub_year	Table of attributes of Scopus publications included in linked data
publications_full	See publications	Table of attributes of Scopus publications included in raw data
publication_fields	field, pub	Crosswalk between Scopus publication IDs and ASJC field codes for publications included in linked data
publication_fields_full	See publication_fields	Crosswalk between Scopus publication IDs and ASJC field codes for all publications in raw data
publication_types	pub_type, pub_type_code, pub_type_desc	Table of publication type descriptors
teams	fte, prop, prsn, role, round	Table linking researchers in linked data to Marsden Fund proposals
teams_full	See teams	Table linking Marsden Fund applicants in raw data to proposals

Variables

Variable	Type	Description
aff_country	int	Country of affiliation ID
aff_country_desc	int	Country of affiliation name
aff_country_tag	int	Country of affiliation tag
auth	dbl	Scopus author ID
field	int	ASJC field ID
field_desc	chr	ASJC field description
field_group	int	ASJC field group ID
field_group_desc	chr	ASJC field group description
fte	dbl	Person's FTE budget on funding contract
mean_n_citations	int	Mean number of citations for publications in field field and year pub_year
prop	chr	Proposal ID
prop_is_contracted	int	Binary indicator for whether proposal led to a funding contract
prop_is_fast_start	int	Binary indicator for whether proposal was for a Fast Start grant
prop_max_round	int	Maximum round reached by proposal (see round)
prop_year	int	Proposal year
prsn	chr	Person ID
prsn_forename	chr	Person forename
prsn_gender	chr	Person gender
prsn_initials	chr	Person initials
prsn_is_maori	int	Binary indicator for whether person identifies as Māori
prsn_is_nzl_based	int	Binary indicator for whether person was based at a New Zealand institution at time of most recent proposal
prsn_surname	chr	Person surname
pub	dbl	Publication ID
pub_n_auth	int	Number of Scopus author IDs linked to publication
pub_n_citations	int	Number of citations accrued to publication
pub_n_nzl_auth	int	Number of Scopus author IDs with New Zealand affiliations linked to publication
pub_type	int	Publication type ID
pub_type_code	chr	Publication type code
pub_type_desc	chr	Publication type description
pub_year	int	Publication year
role	chr	Person's role on proposal team
round	int	Marsden application round (0 = First, 1 = Second, 2 = Funded)
source	chr	Match source
subject_area	int	ASJC subject area ID
subject_area_desc	chr	Subject area description

Dependencies

Our analysis uses several R packages. We identify these packages at the beginning of code/analysis.R and in logs/analysis.log. All dependencies can be installed by running

pkgs <- c(
  'alpaca',
  'conflicted',
  'feather',
  'knitr',
  'margins',
  'MASS',
  'Matrix',
  'sandwich',
  'sessioninfo',
  'tidyverse',
  'texreg',
  'widyr'
)
install.packages(pkgs)

at the R console.

License

MIT