Urbanovics Anna, Márkusz István, Palla Gergely, Pollner Péter, Sasvári Péter
Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies, Ludovika University of Public Service, Ludovika Square 2, Budapest, H-1083, Hungary.
Dept. of Biological Physics, Eötvös Lóránd University, Pázmány P. stny. 1/A, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary.
Heliyon. 2024 Jun 19;10(12):e32403. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32403. eCollection 2024 Jun 30.
The international scientific community puts an ever-growing emphasis on research excellence and performance evaluation. So does the European Union with its flagship research excellence grant scheme organised by the European Research Council. This paper aims to provide an in-depth analysis of one of the ERC's thematic panels within the social sciences, namely the SH2 "Political Science" panel. The analysis is based on empirical, statistical methods, and network analysis tools to gain insights about the grant winners' publication patterns and their coauthor networks. The results draw up an academic career track of the grantees based on quantitative publication patterns and performance. Besides, a change in authorship can be observed, which is proven by the formation of new groups and intensifying intra-group collaboration patterns in the case of all three grant types. However, the ERC grant serves different functions for the winners of three different categories: for the Starting Grant winners, it offers the possibility to kick off and establish their research group, for the Consolidator Grant winners, it opens up new opportunities to extend their co-authorship network, and for the Advanced Grant winners, it offers the chance to start a new collaboration.
国际科学界越来越重视卓越研究和绩效评估。欧盟通过由欧洲研究理事会组织的旗舰卓越研究资助计划也是如此。本文旨在深入分析欧洲研究理事会社会科学领域的一个主题小组，即SH2“政治学”小组。该分析基于实证、统计方法和网络分析工具，以深入了解资助获得者的出版模式及其合著网络。研究结果根据定量出版模式和绩效勾勒出受资助者的学术职业轨迹。此外，可以观察到作者身份的变化，这在所有三种资助类型中都通过新团体的形成和团体内部合作模式的强化得到了证明。然而，欧洲研究理事会的资助对三类不同的获奖者发挥着不同的作用：对于启动资助获得者来说，它提供了启动并建立其研究团队的可能性；对于巩固资助获得者来说，它为扩展其合著网络开辟了新机会；对于高级资助获得者来说，它提供了开展新合作的机会。
