DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5752389
title: NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research Opportunity Network (OppNet) Program Data

description: Original data for <b>A Bibliometric Comparison of NIH R01 and R21 Awards: A Case Study Using Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research Awards.</b><b><br></b><b>Abbreviations</b>:<b>BSSR</b>: behavioral and social science research<b>bBSSR</b>: basic behavioral and social science research<b>BSSR-only</b>: awards that are BSSR but not bBSSR<br><b> </b> <b>The following datasets are in this fileset</b>:<b>1. <i>OppNet data.csv</i></b>: Award, publication, and forward citation data for OppNet awards. <b>2. <i>NIH iCite results for OppNet publications.csv</i></b>: forward citation data for OppNet publications; retrieved from the NIH iCite database (https://icite.od.nih.gov/analysis)<b>3. <i>BSSR-only data.csv</i></b>: BSSR-only award, publication, and related information<br><b>4. <i>bBSSR data.csv</i></b>: bBSSR award, publication, and related information<b>5. </b><i>BSSR-only and bBSSR NIH iCite data.csv</i>: forward citation data for both BSSR-only and bBSSR publications; retrieved from the NIH iCite database <b>6. <i>Forward citation data for BSSR-only and bBSSR publications.csv</i></b>: Forward citation data, retrieved from Scopus, for BSSR-only and bBSSR publications<b>7. </b><i><b>BSSR-only and bBSSR total costs.csv</b>: </i>NIH total cost (direct costs + indirect costs) for BSSR-only and bBSSR awards; data retrieved from NIH Reporter<br> <b>Metadata (column name and description) for each dataset</b>:<i><b>OppNet data.csv</b></i><br><b>Group</b>: specifies that the data is for OppNet awards and publications<b>Type</b>: funding type, either R01 or R21 grant award<b>Grant.number</b>: NIH grant number for award<b>Project.start.date</b>: NIH project start date for award (month/day/year)<b>PMID</b>: PubMed identification number for publications as)sociated with respective awards; NA indicates that awards without publications<b>Pub.date</b>: Date of publication retrieved from PubMed; dates designate time of electronic publication unless there was no electronic publication, then date designates time of physical publication (month/day/year)<b>Fwd.PMID:</b> PMID of forward citations for a particular publication; forward citations retrieved from Scopus database, limited to journal articles and publications; NA indicates no forward citations were retrieved from Scopus<b>Fwd.pub.date</b>: Date of publication for a forward citation; dates retrieved from PubMed, electronic publication dates were used unless a publication had no electronic publication date (month/day/year)<br><i><b>NIH iCite results for OppNet publications.csv</b></i><br><b>PubMed.ID</b>: PubMed identification number of OppNet publications (this is equivalent to PMID in the <i>OppNet data.csv</i> file)<b>Total.Citations</b>: number of total forward citations for a given OppNet publication<b>Citations.per.Year</b>: citations per full calendar year after publication (calculated by NIH iCite)<b>Expected.Citations.per.Year</b>: number of expected citations per year<b>Field.Citation.Rate</b>: average citations of the field's journals each year<b>Relative.Citation.Ratio</b>: the RCR represents a citation-based measure of scientific influence of one or more articles. It is calculated as the cites/year of each paper, normalized to the citations per year received by NIH-funded papers in the same field and year.<b>NIH.Percentile</b>:<b> </b>Percentile rank amongst NIH-funded publications<b>Year</b>: Year of OppNet publication<b>Title</b>: OppNet publication title<b>Authors</b>: List of authors for OppNet publication<b>Journal</b>: Journal in which the OppNet publication was published<b>Article</b>: Indicates whether the publication was a journal article (yes or no)<b><br></b><i><b>BSSR-only data.csv & bBSSR data.csv</b></i><br>Column names and descriptions are the same for both files. BSSR-only data.csv contains only information related to BSSR-only awards; and bBSSR data.csv contains only information related to bBSSR awards.<b>Grant.number</b>: NIH grant number for award<b>FOA</b>: NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement number<b>Activity</b>: funding type, either R01 or R21 grant award<b>Announcement.code</b>: type of FOA--Program Announcement (PA); PAR (a PA with special receipt, referral and/or review considerations); PAS (a PA that includes specific set-aside funds); RFA (request for application)<b>Announcement.type: </b>either PA (those designated as PAR or PAS under Announcement.code were re-designated as PA) or RFA<b>Project.start.date</b>: NIH project start date for award (month/day/year)<b>Project.end.date</b>: NIH project end date for award (month/day/year)<b>PMID: </b>PubMed identification number for publications associated with respective awards; NA indicates that awards without publications<b>Pub.date: </b>Date of publication retrieved from PubMed; dates designate time of electronic publication unless there was no electronic publication, then date designates time of physical publication (month/day/year)<b>Accepted.date: </b>Date that the publication of interest was accepted by the publishing journal; data retrieved from PubMed<b>Received.date</b>: Date that the journal received the publication; data retrieved from PubMed<b>Translational</b>: 1 indicates publications that are translational research; 0 indicates publications that are not translational researchNote: translational research publications are those that had one or more of the following publication types, as indicated through PubMed: clinical trial; controlled clinical trial; clinical trial, phase I; clinical trial, phase II; clinical trial, phase III; clinical trial, phase IV; pragmatic clinical trial; randomized controlled trial; or observational study<b>Total.grants</b>: Total number of grants acknowledged by the publication<br><i>BSSR-only and bBSSR NIH iCite data.csv</i><br>Column names and descriptions are the same as those in NIH iCite results for OppNet publications.csv. Data are for BSSR-only and bBSSR publications.<b> </b><b><br></b><b><i>Forward citation data for BSSR-only and bBSSR publications.csv</i></b><b><br></b><b>Type</b>: Funding mechanism, either R01 or R21<b>Grant.number</b>: NIH grant number<b>PMID</b>: PubMed identification number for publications associated with respective awards; NA indicates that awards without publications<b>Fwd.PMID</b>: PMID of forward citation for a particular publication; forward citations retrieved from Scopus database, limited to journal articles and publications; NA indicates no forward citations were retrieved from Scopus<b>Fwd.pub.date</b>: Date of publication for a forward citation; dates retrieved from PubMed, electronic publication dates were used unless a publication had no electronic publication date (month/day/year)<b>Fwd.accepted.date</b>: Date of forward citation acceptance by journal (month/day/year)<b>Fwd.received.date</b>: Date journal received submission from forward citation publication (month/day/year)<b>Fwd.translational</b>: 1 indicates that the forward citation was translational research; 0 indicates that the forward citation was not translational researchNote: translational research was defined the same as above<br><i><b>BSSR-only and bBSSR total costs.csv</b></i><br><b>Grant.number</b>: NIH grant number<b>Total.costs</b>: Total NIH costs (direct costs + indirect costs) for an award (in USD)<br>Contact Xueying Han (xhan@ida.org) if you have any questions.<br>