Differences Between Research Projects in Computer Science Funded by Japanese and American Agencies (2023)

Differences Between Research Projects in Computer Science Funded by Japanese and American Agencies. / Ishita, Emi; Nakatoh, Tetsuya.

From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual: Augmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries - 24th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Yuen-Hsien Tseng; Marie Katsurai; Hoa N. Nguyen. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. p. 144-152 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13636 LNCS).

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abstract = "Understanding the relationship between funding agencies{\textquoteright} expectations and researchers{\textquoteright} activities in funded research projects will contribute to improved policy-making by funding agencies and better research activity by researchers. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate how research project size, international collaboration, and publication in international journals of articles resulting from funded research projects in Japan have progressed over the last decade. We focused on publications resulting from research projects funded by the major grants agencies in Japan and the USA using bibliographic data for computer science papers published from 2011 to 2020. Based on the numbers of authors of published journal articles and conference papers, the results showed that the size of projects funded by the National Science Foundation has been growing. In terms of international collaboration, both countries have increasingly collaborated with China, and researchers involved in research projects funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science have increasingly published in English-language journals with less diverse audiences.",

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note = "Funding Information: Our main focus is funded research projects in Japan, but we also examined funded research projects in the USA for comparison. The JSPS [6] was selected as the main research funding agency in Japan, while the National Science Foundation (NSF) [7] was selected as the main funding agency in the USA. We examined funded computer science research projects from 2011 to 2020 because the research groups in this field were in a dynamic state of change. Japanese researchers in computer science are expected to publish in international journals and at international conferences, which facilitated this analysis. The data used in this study were obtained from the Scopus database. If researchers{\textquoteright} projects are funded by grant agencies, they are strongly advised to include information regarding this funding in their acknowledgments. Therefore, the Scopus database enabled us to obtain a list of publications funded by grant agencies. Funding Information: The bibliographic data used were obtained from the Scopus database using query searches. We focused on computer science publications from 2011 to 2020 using the search option “SUBJAREA(comp)” to specify the field of computer science and the search options “(DOCTYPE,“ar”)” and “(DOCTYPE,“cp”) to identify journal articles and papers from conference proceedings, respectively. The search option “(FUND-SPONSOR, “National Science Foundation”)” was used to identify projects funded by the NSF in the USA and the search option “(FUND-SPONSOR, “Japan Society for the Promotion of Science”)” was used to identify projects funded by the JSPS in Japan. Table 1 shows the number of search results for each funding agency, publication year, and literature type. Scopus is constantly adding bibliographic data, including for previous publication years, and thus the results shown in Table 1 are those that were obtained in June 2021, when we conducted the search. Because Scopus only permitted a maximum of 2,000 bibliographic items including the abstract and other detailed information to be downloaded, when the number of search results exceeded this number, the 2,000 most highly cited papers were selected for analysis. Funding Information: as the “Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research” and “Enhancement of International Dissemination of Information” [3], the title of which indicate that funding agencies encourage researchers to engage in international collaborations. Another trend is growth in research project size. This can be explained by the emergence of Big Science, which is characterized by “large-scale instruments and facilities, supported by funding from government or international agencies, in which research is conducted by teams or groups of scientists and technicians” [4]. For example, the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has called for research proposals for its JST-Mirai Program (Large-scale Type) [5]. In Japan, researchers have been used to presenting their contributions to and building their communities in Japanese academic associations, and thus Japanese academia has become well-developed. However, as noted above, funding agencies are increasingly expecting researchers in Japan to conduct large-scale research and engage in international collaborations, although these expectations are rarely made explicit. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 24th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2022 ; Conference date: 30-11-2022 Through 02-12-2022",

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