@article{3091,
  keywords = {Asian People, Biomedical Research, Black People, Black or African American, Databases, Factual, Education, Graduate, Ethnicity, Fellowships and Scholarships, Financing, Government, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Likelihood Functions, Models, Statistical, National Institutes of Health (U.S.), Peer Review, Research, Publishing, Racial Groups, Research Personnel, Research Support as Topic, United States, White People},
  author = {Donna K. Ginther and Walter T. Schaffer and Joshua Schnell and Beth Masimore and Faye Liu and Laurel L. Haak and Raynard Kington},
  title = {Race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards},
  abstract = {We investigated the association between a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 applicant's self-identified race or ethnicity and the probability of receiving an award by using data from the NIH IMPAC II grant database, the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, and other sources. Although proposals with strong priority scores were equally likely to be funded regardless of race, we find that Asians are 4 percentage points and black or African-American applicants are 13 percentage points less likely to receive NIH investigator-initiated research funding compared with whites. After controlling for the applicant's educational background, country of origin, training, previous research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10 percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding. Our results suggest some leverage points for policy intervention.},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Science},
  volume = {333},
  pages = {1015-1019},
  month = {2011-08-19},
  issn = {1095-9203},
  doi = {10.1126/science.1196783},
  language = {eng},
}