Arts and Humanities Research Council
This round of research grants has been awarded to support high-quality research whose speculative or exploratory nature means that results are uncertain and outcomes cannot be guaranteed. The work might also involve a significant degree of risk.
- Award winner: Hilary Dalke
Institution: Kingston University
Value: £130,254
Multi-sensory design interventions in perception of environments
- Award winner: Yvonne Rogers
Institution: The Open University
Value: £165,947
Extending our sense and self through designing novel technologies
- Award winner: Chris Scarre
Institution: University of Durham
Value: £134,992
The buried Neolithic landscape of Herm (Channel Islands)
- Award winner: John Swinton
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £163,754
Understanding the spiritual lives of people with profound learning disabilities: a community-oriented action research approach
Medical Research Council
- Award winner: David Stuart
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £1,710,000
A UK national protein production facility for biomedically driven structural proteomics
- Award winner: Kim Nasmyth
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £1,525,364
Chromosome segregation in mammalian meiosis
- Award winner: Philip Woodman
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £1,303,780
His domain phosphotyrosine phosphatase (HDPTP), a key regulator of endocytic trafficking and receptor downregulation
- Award winner: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £1,259,040
Mechanisms ensuring sister kinetochore bi-orientation on the mitotic spindle
| Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 2005-07 | |
| Paper | Citations |
| Author(s), Journal | |
| 1 %3Cb%3EAn index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output %3C/b%3EJ. E. Hirsch, %3Ci%3EPNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America%3C/i%3E,02 (46): 16569-16572 15 Nov 2005 | 70 |
| 2 %3Cb%3EDoes the h-index for ranking of scientists really work%3F%3C/b%3E L. Bornmann and H. D. Daniel, %3Ci%3EScientometrics%3C/i%3E 65 (3): 391-392 Dec 2005 | 22 |
| 3 %3Cb%3EComparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups%3C/b%3E A. F. J. Van Raan, %3Ci%3EScientometrics%3C/i%3E 67 (3): 491-502 June 2006 | 14 |
| 4 %3Cb%3EOn the h-index – a mathematical approach to a new measure of publication activity and citation impact%3C/b%3E W. Glanzel, %3Ci%3EScientometrics%3C/i%3E 67 (2): 315-321 May 2006 | 12 |
| 5 %3Cb%3EUsing the h-index to rank influential information scientists%3C/b%3E B. Cronin and L. Meho, %3Ci%3EJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology%3C/i%3E 57 (9): 15-18 July 2006 | 11 |
| 6 %3Cb%3EIs it possible to compare researchers with different scientific interests%3F%3C/b%3E P. D. Batista, M. G. Campiteli, O. Kinouchi and A. S. Martinez %3Ci%3EScientometrics%3C/i%3E 68 (1): 179-189 July 2006 | 11 |
| 7 %3Cb%3EAn informetric model for the Hirsch-index%3C/b%3E, L. Egghe and R. Rousseau, %3Ci%3EScientometrics%3C/i%3E 69 (1): 121-129 April 2006 | 10 |
| 8 %3Cb%3EWhat do we know about the h index%3F%3C/b%3E L. Bornmann and H. D. Daniel, %3Ci%3EJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology%3C/i%3E 58 (9): 1381-1385 July 2007 | 3 |
| In late 2005, Jorge E. Hirsch, professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, published an article describing the h-index, which he called “a useful index to characterise the scientific output of a researcher”. This paper (which can be viewed at %3Ca href%3D"http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/46/16569"target%3D_blan...) has been cited 90 times as of this writing. A survey of the current edition of Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators database reveals that the h-index is the hottest topic in information science today. The same database lists a Research Front, derived from co-citation analysis, with eight core papers (see left), including that by Professor Hirsch, that have collectively attracted more than 150 citations. Professor Hirsch himself recently published another paper on this subject: “Does the h-index have predictive power%3F,” %3Ci%3EPNAS%3C/i%3E, 104(49): 19193-8, 26 November 2007. Professor Hirsch describes the h-index thus: “A scientist has an index h if h of his or her Np papers have at least h citations each and the other (Np – h) papers have less than or equal to h citations each.” Np is the number of papers published over n years. Professor Hirsch found that among the physicists he surveyed, Edward Witten – a mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a pioneer in string theory and related areas – had the highest h-index: 110. “That is,” he explained, “Witten has written 110 papers with at least 110 citations each.” Professor Hirsch argued that “h is preferable to other single-number criteria commonly used to evaluate scientific output of a researcher”, and he listed total papers, total citations, citation per paper, number of significant papers (defined as the number of papers with more than a certain number of citations), and number of citations to each of a researcher’s q most cited papers (for example, q %3D 5). | |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Award winner: Richard Phillips
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £747,158
Coherent matter in semiconductor microcavities: non-equilibrium polariton condensates
- Award winner: Stephen Eichhorn
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £425,496
Hybrid electrospun fibres from biomass-based carbon nanostructures
- Award winner: Peter Sewell
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £840,709
Reasoning with relaxed memory models
- Award winner (Institution): Alan Smaill (University of Edinburgh), Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University), Simon Colton (Imperial College London)
Value: £518,935 (Edinburgh), £74,143 (Heriot-Watt), £77,901 (Imperial)
A cognitive model of axiom formulation and reformulation with application to AI and software engineering
- Award winner: Dhiraj Pradhan
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £2,760
Synthesis and optimisation of designs based on novel canonical algebraic structures
- Award winner: Ursel Bangert
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £30,6
Electron energy-loss spectroscopy of individual ions implanted into carbon nanostructures
- Award winner: Phil Purnell
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £98,718
NACNet: New Applications for Cement-type materials Network
- Award winner: George Buchanan
Institution: University of Swansea
Value: £260,700
Document triage in the information-seeking process
- Award winner: Adam Squires
Institution: University of Reading
Value: £292,291
New methods for producing and analysing nanostructured self-assembled lipid mesophases with bi-continuous cubic topology as supported thin films
- Award winner: Alex Simpson
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £349,861
Linear observations and computational effects
- Award winner: Guenter Moebus
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £402,642
Nanoparticle and element distribution studies of ion implantation processes
- Award winner: Philip Lightfoot
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £332,854
New fluoride-based magnetoelectrics
- Award winner: Faron Moller
Institution: University of Swansea
Value: £65,235
British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science 2008-10
- Award winner (Institution): Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool), Sandor Veres (University of Southampton)
Value: £385,283 (Liverpool), £433,903 (Southampton)
Engineering autonomous space software
- Award winner: Simon Blackburn
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: £14,063
Combinatorics and wireless sensor networks
- Award winner (Institution): Thomas Walther (University of Sheffield), Asen Asenov (University of Glasgow), David Leadley (University of Warwick)
Value: £309,510 (Sheffield), £376,004 (Glasgow), £1,030,238 (Warwick)
Renaissance germanium
- Award winner: Ken Evans
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: £562,106
Auxetic textiles for blast mitigation
- Award winner: Abbie McLaughlin
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £250,852
Colossal magnetoresistance in cuprates?
- Award winner (Institution): Julie Yeomans (University of Surrey), Jingzhe Pan (University of Leicester)
Value: £90,754 (Surrey), £4,730 (Leicester)
Modelling constrained shrinking and cracking
- Award winner: Alessandro Astolfi
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £24,977
Tutorials and workshop: analysis and design of nonlinear control systems
- Award winner (Institution): Michael Ashfold (University of Bristol), Ravi Silva (University of Surrey)
Value: £3,107 (Bristol), £437,528 (Surrey)
Pulsed laser synthesis of functional nanomaterials
- Award winner: Colin Leach
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £101,262
SEM-based technique for local property measurements in electroceramic thick/thin films: proof of principle.
Award winner: Stephen Mann
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £307,053
Self-assembled gold nanoparticle chains for nanoplasmonics
Award winner: Richard Coles
Institution: Birmingham City University
Value: £290,016
The analysis of wellbeing parameters operating within the environment of castle vale – the application of systems approaches (a pilot study)
Award winners (institution): Jon Cooper (University of Glasgow), Richard Michael Berry (University of Oxford)
Value: £1,267,175 (Glasgow), £135,2
Listening to the micro-world
Award winners (institution): Pam Thomas (University of Warwick), Mike Glazer (University of Oxford)
Value: £185,776 (Warwick) £288,487
Crystallography and properties of lithium niobate-tantalate solid solutions: towards novel optically isotropic, electrically polar materials
Award winners (institution): George Fraser (University of Leicester), Gao Min (Cardiff University), David Leadley (University of Warwick), Phil Meeson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Value: £8,952 (Leicester), £268,023 (Cardiff), £1,100,713 (Warwick), £284,408 (Royal Holloway)
On-chip milliKelvin electronic refrigerator for astronomical and quantum device applications
Award winner: Richard Adams
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £408,805
Quantifying cell behaviour in morphogenesis
Award winner: Robin Nicholas
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £488,248
Experimental studies of graphene-carbon nanotube heterojunctions
