An Analysis of Terminated NSF and NIH Grants

What are the Flagged Keywords?

NSF
grants
research development
R
dataviz
text analysis
Author
Affiliation

Kadir Jun Ayhan, Ph.D.

JMU REDI Office of Research Development

Published

Monday, May 12, 2025

Introduction

Noam Ross from rOpenSci and Scott Delaney from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have compiled two excellent datasets on terminated NIH and NSF grants .

Using the flagged keywords dictionary from the dataset on terminated NIH grants, I conducted frequency analyses of keywords in the terminated grants.

I only added “critical” as an additional keyword to the NIH flagged keywords. I also used the same keywords for the NSF dataset. You can suggest more flagged keywords by sending me an email.