Friday Christmas cocktails

Another signal from this period (1994-1997) correlates with the development of tools that improve clinical care for HIV patients, which is notable because behavioral and social science advances are less likely to be recognized with major prizes 10/15

Each historical CCN is like a time capsule: they contain only data that would have existed if time stopped in that year. We strung together different years, following the trajectory of our prize-winning gold standards as the topic evolved and gained recognition. 6/15

The first step in answering our ambitious question was to agnostically and systematically define every possible research topic by applying regularized Markov clustering to the co-citation network (CCN) of all of PubMed – that’s more than 18 million papers! 4/15

US R&D spending on fundamental research in constant 2005 dollars

from 2013 Press, W. Science 342:817

Proportion of #NIH awards to medical schools versus other institutions, 1952-1961

from: Basic Data Relating to the National Institutes of Health, 1961 -1965

percentage of #NIH R01 applications by priority score, using human subjects as a (useful but imperfect) proxy to identify clinical research

from 04 Kotchen et al JAMA

Thinking about new beginnings.

Timeline for the first 20 years of #NIH

from 96 Mandel, A Half Century of Peer Review