Following the Funding Graph: Mapping Biomedical Research as a Network
Research funding is usually presented as a collection of projects: investigator, institution, funding programme, start date, end date. But research itself does not operate as a collection of isolated projects. Researchers collaborate. Institutions form recurring partnerships. Scientists move between funding schemes. Publications connect investigators who may sit in different organisations or funding cohorts. Over time, what looks like a table of grants becomes a network. I wanted to explore what that network could look like computationally. ...