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Improving success probabilities of faculty requests for extramural research support

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Abstract

The study focuses on a predetermined selection of variables which are amenable to administrative control and which are frequently cited in the literature as having an impact on success probabilities, and it offers estimates of the magnitude and direction of the effect of these on the chance of obtaining an award from either of two leading sponsors of research at universities and colleges. It finds that as much as 50 percent of the variability in the probability of success is attributable to the selected variables and that individual measures of impact vary both within and between sponsoring agencies. This outcome is evidence that action taken by university administrators could improve the competitiveness of faculty in the sponsored funds market.

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    Albert E. Muir

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Muir, A.E. Improving success probabilities of faculty requests for extramural research support. Res High Educ 10, 345–355 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975525

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