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RePORT Overview |
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Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)
Reports, Data and Analyses of NIH Research Activities
NIH Data Book
Biennial Report of the Director, National Institutes of Health Fiscal Years 2006 & 2007
Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC)
RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER)
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| Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) |
In addition to carrying out its scientific mission, NIH exemplifies and promotes the highest level of public accountability. To that end, the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool provides access to reports, data,
and analyses of NIH research activities, including information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH-supported research.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental
knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems, and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. The RePORT web site provides access to reports,
data, and analyses of NIH research activities that advance this mission, including information on NIH expenditures and the results of NIH-supported research.
The RePORT home page provides Quick Links to frequently requested information, and links to major sections of the site, including NIH strategic plans, reports on NIH funding, and reports on the organizations and people
involved in NIH research and research training. There's also a section on special reports on recent issues of interest.
A navigation bar below the RePORT banner at the top of the screen provides access to major sections of the RePORT site, including frequently requested reports, a searchable database of reports, and the CRISP query system.
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| Reports, Data and Analyses of NIH Research Activities |
To provide NIH stakeholders with quick and easy access to basic information on NIH programs, the NIH has created a single repository of reports, data, and analyses, along with several tools for searching this database. A common
classification scheme based on the traditional NIH budget categories is used to group similar reports. Several different filters can be applied to find information specific to a particular NIH Institute or Center, funding mechanism,
or topic of interest.
The Reports page provides access to a searchable database of reports. Each report has been categorized by topic, IC, the portfolio being reported on, the budget mechanisms and activities through which the programs included in
the report are funded, and the years covered by the report.
There are several drop-down menus that can be used to narrow your search for data. For example, someone interested in finding success rates for R01 applications submitted to all NIH Institutes and Centers in fiscal year
2007 would find reports containing this information by selecting:
- Success Rates from the list of Topics,
- R01 from the list of Activities, and
- 2007 from the list of years provided.
The Search button reduces the database, which contains hundreds of reports, to a small set that matches these criteria. Report titles in the resulting hitlist provide additional information on the nature of each report.
If no reports are found, the Contact Us form allows users to request custom reports from the Division of Information Services.
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| NIH Data Book |
The NIH Data Book (NDB) provides basic summary statistics on extramural grants and contract awards, grant applications, the organizations that NIH supports, the scientific workforce, and trainees and fellows supported through NIH
programs. Tables and charts are provided in a variety of formats, including PowerPoint (PPT) slides and Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
There are two major sections of the Data Book: a core set of tables and charts that will be updated each year, and a series of supplements on special topics that focus on current issues in NIH research and policy.
The tables and charts in the Data Book can be printed as well as exported to Microsoft Word and/or PowerPoint. A PowerPoint slide will include the data used to generate a chart in the Notes section of the slide.
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Biennial Report of the Director,
National Institutes of Health Fiscal Years 2006 & 2007 |
The NIH Biennial Report, mandated by the NIH Reform Act of 2006, provides an assessment of the state of biomedical and behavioral research, a portrait of NIH research activities (integrated across all 27 Institutes and Centers), some key research
approaches and resources used in NIH research, and a review of those NIH Centers of Excellence that have been established by statutory mandate.
When Congress passed, and the President subsequently signed into law, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Reform Act of 2006, it amended Section 403 of the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of NIH to submit, on a biennial basis,
a report to Congress. In addition to capturing a remarkable array of important NIH research activities compiled through the work of many NIH staff members, the online version of the Report provides hyperlinks to related NIH and IC websites,
publications, supporting data and reports, and published research articles.
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| Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC) |
The NIH recognizes the importance of keeping the American people informed about how their tax dollars are spent to support medical research. In 2009, the NIH unveiled the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system. RCDC will
provide consistent and transparent information to the public about NIH research. With this new computer-based tool, the public will see NIH's research activities broken down into 215 categories each fiscal year.
A table showing the annual level of support for various research, condition, and disease categories is posted at http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/categories/. The rows of the table are organized alphabetically, but by clicking on a Fiscal Year column,
the rows will be sorted in descending order by funding amount. Click the column heading again to change between ascending or descending order. To return to the alphabetical listing, simply click on the "Research/Disease Areas" column heading.
Clicking on the FY 2008 amount for a category will bring up the list of categorized research projects.
Icons are available to download both the summary table and the project listings to Excel. An icon is also available to print the summary table.
Some of the research funding amounts that the RCDC system reports may differ from NIH reports issued in the past. That is because RCDC will categorize research using a new method. For the first time, this new method will apply the same definition
for grants, contracts, and research conducted within NIH's own laboratories and clinics (intramural research) for each category across all of NIH. Despite the change in categorizing NIH research, the way NIH budgets and spends tax dollars will stay
the same.
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| RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) |
For many years, one of the most common ways for the public to find information on NIH research programs was to search for projects in the NIH CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) system. With a new legislative mandate, included in the NIH Reform Act of 2006, to provide access to publications and patents resulting from NIH expenditures, and the additional requirement to provide an electronic system for consistently classifying NIH research projects into categorical areas of research, the CRISP system has undergone a major overhaul. The new system is called the RePORT Expenditures and Results module, RePORTER. RePORTER retains all of the search capabilities of the CRISP system it replaces, while providing additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). RePORTER also provides links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database for more information on research results.
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