The European Union's (EU's) Framework Programmes (FP) for Research and Technological Development are major funders of research in Europe. The budget rose from €19·1 billion under FP61 (2002—06) to €53 billion2 in FP7 (2007—13). With billions of taxpayers' Euros invested, it is desirable to know where the money is being spent and what is produced. We attempted to use an informatics approach to identify academic publications resulting from health-related research funded under FP5 and FP6. Although the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT) of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) dynamically link to PubMed/Medline to return papers associated with NIH grant codes, there is no similar system for the online record of EU-funded projects (Community Research and Development Information Service [CORDIS]). We therefore wrote a program to data-mine Google Scholar with EU grant codes, counting papers returned. We then wrote another mining program using paper titles extracted from Google Scholar (which subsumes PubMed; appendix) to link to PubMed. Are foundings suggest that more than half of the investment has no visible scientific result, as measured by the papers published in international journals and indexed by Google Scholar.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 30371289Janez Stare has been chair of the Programme committee of the Applied Statistics (see http://conferences.nib.si/AS2012/default.htm) since 2004. He and Lara Lusa they are editors of the conference proceedings.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 263187968Invited lecture on a workshop organized by Italian society of cancer registries
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 29905113In the broadcast Good hour, devoted to science, the subject was statistics in general, and statistics in medicine in particular.
F.35 Other
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