Below data dictionary contains fields ExPORTER files and fields in RePORTER export files.
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application_ID | A unique identifier of the project record in the RePORTER database. | Application ID | Application ID |
| Activity | A 3-character code identifying the grant, contract, or intramural activity through which a project is supported. Within each funding mechanism, NIH uses 3-character activity codes (e.g., F32, K08, P01, R01, T32, etc.) to differentiate the wide variety of research-related programs NIH supports. A comprehensive list of activity codes for grants and cooperative agreements may be found on the Types of Grant Programs Web page. RePORTER also includes R&D contracts (activity codes beginning with the letter N) and intramural projects (beginning with the letter Z). | Activity Code | Activity |
| Administering_IC | Administering Institute or Center - A two-character code to designate the agency, NIH Institute, or Center administering the grant. See Institute/Center code definitions. | Agency/ Institute/ Center | Administering IC |
| Application_Type | A one-digit code to identify the type of application funded: 1 = New application 2 = Competing continuation (also, competing renewal) 3 = Application for additional (supplemental) support. There are two kinds of type 3 competing revisions (which are peer-reviewed and administrative supplements) 4 = Competing extension for an R37 award or first non-competing year of a Fast-Track SBIR/STTR award 5 = Non-competing continuation 7 = Change of grantee institution 9 = Change of NIH awarding Institute or Division (on a competing continuation) | Award Type | Type |
| ARRA_Funded | “Y” indicates a project supported by funds appropriated through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. | NIH ARRA Selection | ARRA Indicator |
| Award_Notice_Date | Award notice date or Notice of Grant Award (NGA) is a legally binding document stating the government has obligated funds and which defines the period of support and the terms and conditions of award. | Award Notice Date | Award Notice Date |
| Budget_Start | The date when a project’s funding for a particular fiscal year begins. | NA | Budget Start Date |
| Budget_End | The date when a project’s funding for a particular fiscal year ends. | NA | Budget End Date |
| CFDA_Code | Federal programs are assigned a number in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), which is referred to as the "CFDA code." The CFDA database helps the Federal government track all programs it has domestically funded | NA | CFDA Code |
| Core_Project_Num | An identifier for each research project, used to associate the project with publication and patent records. This identifier is not specific to any particular year of the project. It consists of the project activity code, administering IC, and serial number (a concatenation of Activity, Administering_IC, and Serial_Number). | Project Number | NA |
| ED_Inst_Type | Generic name for the grouping of components across an institution who has applied for or receives NIH funding. The official name as used by NIH is Major Component Combining Name | Organization Type | Organization Type |
| FOA_Number | The number of the funding opportunity announcement, if any, under which the project application was solicited. Funding opportunity announcements may be categorized as program announcements, requests for applications, notices of funding availability, solicitations, or other names depending on the agency and type of program. Funding opportunity announcements can be found at Grants.gov/FIND and in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts. | FOA | FOA |
| Full_Project_Num | Commonly referred to as a grant number, intramural project, or contract number. For grants, this unique identification number is composed of the type code, activity code, Institute/Center code, serial number, support year, and (optional) a suffix code to designate amended applications and supplements. | Project Number | Project Number |
| Funding_IC(s) | The NIH Institute or Center(s) providing funding for a project are designated by their acronyms (see Institute/Center acronyms). Each funding IC is followed by a colon (:) and the amount of funding provided for the fiscal year by that IC. Multiple ICs are separated by semicolons (;). Project funding information is available only for NIH, CDC, FDA, and ACF projects. | Agency/ Institute/ Center | Funding IC(s) |
| Funding_Mechanism | The major mechanism categories used in NIH Budget mechanism tables for the President’s budget. Extramural research awards are divided into three main funding mechanisms: grants, cooperative agreements and contracts. A funding mechanism is the type of funded application or transaction used at the NIH. Within each funding mechanism NIH includes programs. Programs can be further refined by specific activity codes. | Funding Mechanism | Funding Mechanism |
| FY | The fiscal year appropriation from which project funds were obligated. | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year |
| IC_Name | Full name of the administering agency, Institute, or Center. | Agency/ Institute/ Center | IC |
| NIH_Spending_Cats | Congressionally-mandated reporting categories into which NIH projects are categorized. Available for fiscal years 2008 and later. Each project’s spending category designations for each fiscal year are made available the following year as part of the next President’s Budget request. See the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization System for more information on the categorization process. | NIH Spending Category | NIH Spending Categorization |
| Org_City | The city in which the business office of the grantee organization or contractor is located. Note that this may be different from the research performance site. For all NIH intramural projects, Bethesda, MD is used. | City | Organization City |
| Org_Country | The country in which the business office of the grantee organization or contractor is located. Note that this may be different from the research performance site. | Country | Organization Country |
| Org_DEPT | The departmental affiliation of the contact principal investigator for a project, using a standardized categorization of departments. Names are available only for medical school departments. | Department Type | Department |
| Org_District | The congressional district in which the business office of the grantee organization or contractor is located. Note that this may be different from the research performance site. | Congressional District | Congressional District |
| Org_DUNS | This field may contain multiple DUNS Numbers separated by a semi-colon. The Data Universal Numbering System is a unique nine-digit number assigned by Dun and Bradstreet Information Services, recognized as the universal standard for identifying and keeping track of business worldwide. | NA | DUNS Number |
| Org_FIPS | The country code of the grantee organization or contractor as defined in the Federal Information Processing Standard. | NA | FIPS |
| ORG_IPF_CODE | The Institution Profile (IPF) number is an internal NIH identifier that uniquely identifies and associates institutional information within NIH electronic systems. The NIH assigns an IPF number after the institution submits its request for registration. | NA | Organization ID (IPF) |
| Org_Name | The name of the educational institution, research organization, business, or government agency receiving funding for the grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or intramural project. Institutional Lookup This file is provided as an analytical resource, encompassing historical data snapshots, and aims to provide look-up values for any IPF code and DUNS number that are present in an ExPORTER file. As expected in such a longitudinal file, a single IPF may be associated with multiple DUNS or vice versa; Also, IPF and DUNS may be associated with multiple institution names as institutions have changed their structure and name over time. The file represents the data at the time the annual ExPORTER files are created. |
Organization | Organization Name |
| Org_State | The state in which the business office of the grantee organization or contractor is located. Note that this may be different from the research performance site. | State | Organization State |
| Org_Zipcode | The zip code in which the business office of the grantee organization or contractor is located. Note that this may be different from the research performance site. | NA | Organization Zip |
| PHR | Submitted as part of a grant application, this statement articulates a project's potential to improve public health. | NA | Public Health Relevance |
| PI_ID(s) | A unique identifier for each of the project Principal Investigators. Each PI in the RePORTER database has a unique identifier that is constant from project to project and year to year, but changes may be observed for investigators that have had multiple accounts in the past, particularly for those associated with contracts or sub-projects. | Principal Investigator (PI) | Contact PI Person ID |
| PI_Name(s) | The name(s) of the Principal Investigator(s) designated by the organization to direct the research project. | Principal Investigator (PI) | Contact PI / Project Leader; Other PI or Project Leader(s) |
| Program_Officer_Name | An Institute staff member who coordinates the substantive aspects of a contract from planning the request for proposal to oversight. | Program Officer (PO) | Program Official Information |
| Project_Start | The start date of a project. For subprojects of a multi-project grant, this is the start date of the parent award. | Project Start Date | Project Start Date |
| Project_End | The current end date of the project, including any future years for which commitments have been made. For subprojects of a multi-project grant, this is the end date of the parent award. Upon competitive renewal of a grant, the project end date is extended by the length of the renewal award. | Project End Date | Project End Date |
| Project_Terms | Prior to fiscal year 2008, these were thesaurus terms assigned by NIH CRISP indexers. For projects funded in fiscal year 2008 and later, these are concepts that are mined from the project's title, abstract, and specific aims using an automated text mining tool. | Text Search | Project Terms |
| Project_Title | Title of the funded grant, contract, or intramural (sub)project. | Text Search | Project Title |
| Serial_Number | A six-digit number assigned in serial number order within each administering organization. | Project Number | Serial Number |
| Study_Section | A designator of the legislatively-mandated panel of subject matter experts that reviewed the research grant application for scientific and technical merit. | Study Section | NA |
| Study_Section_Name | The full name of a regular standing Study Section that reviewed the research grant application for scientific and technical merit. Applications reviewed by panels other than regular standing study sections are designated by “Special Emphasis Panel.” | Study Section | Study Section |
| Subproject_ID | A unique numeric designation assigned to subprojects of a “parent” multi-project research grant. | NA | Subproject Number |
| Suffix | A suffix to the grant application number that includes the letter "A" and a serial number to identify an amended version of an original application and/or the letter "S" and serial number indicating a supplement to the project. | Project Number | Suffix |
| Support_Year | The year of support for a project, as shown in the full project number. For example, a project with number 5R01GM0123456-04 is in its fourth year of support. | Project Number | Support Year |
| Direct_Cost_Amt | Total direct cost funding for a project from all NIH Institute and Centers for a given fiscal year. Costs are available only for NIH awards funded in FY 2012 onward. Direct cost amounts are not available for SBIR/STTR awards. | NA | Direct Cost IC |
| Indirect_Cost_Amt | Total indirect cost funding for a project from all NIH Institute and Centers for a given fiscal year. Costs are available only for NIH awards funded in FY 2012 and onward. Indirect cost amounts are not available for SBIR/STTR awards. | NA | InDirect Cost IC |
| Total_Cost | Total project funding from all NIH Institute and Centers for a given fiscal year. Costs are available only for:
|
Award Size | Total Cost |
| Total_Cost_Sub_Project | Applies to subproject records only. Total funding for a subproject from all NIH Institute and Centers for a given fiscal year. Costs are available only for NIH awards. | Award Size | Total Cost (Sub Projects) |
| NA | The geographic latitude coordinate of an Organization. | NA | Latitude |
| NA | The geographic longitude coordinate of an Organization. | NA | Longitude |
| NA | Projects awarded to study COVID-19 and related topics, as funded under:
|
NIH COVID-19 Response | NIH COVID-19 Response |
| NA | When there are multiple Principal Investigators/Project Leaders, other Principal Investigators/Project Leaders are assigned to the project besides the main contact Principal Investigator. | Principal Investigator (PI) | Other PI or Project Leader(s) |
| NA | Total project funding for one NIH Institute and Centers for a project a given fiscal year. | Award Size | Total Cost IC |
| NA | Primary DUNS number of an organization when there are multiple DUNS assigned to the organization. | NA | Primary DUNS |
| NA | The Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) assigned to all entities (public and private companies, individuals, institutions, or organizations) who must register to do business with the federal government in SAM. Update: Notification of Upcoming Change in Federal-wide Unique Entity Identifier Requirements. | NA | UEI |
| NA | Primary UEI of an organization when there are multiple UEI assigned to the organization. | NA | Primary UEI |
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application_ID | A unique identifier of the project record in the ExPORTER database. It can be used as a key for linking with RePORTER Project. | Application ID | Application ID |
| Abstract_Text | An abstract of the research being performed in the project. For grants, the abstract is supplied to NIH by the grantee. | Text Search | Project Abstract |
For more detailed information on any of the publication data elements, see the MEDLINE®/PubMed® Data Element (Field) Descriptions.
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation | The affiliation of the first author. | NA | Affiliation |
| Authors | A list of the publication’s authors. The format is author last name followed by a space and up to the first two initials (separated by a space) followed by a space and a suffix abbreviation, if applicable. Multiple authors are separate by a semicolon (;). | NA | Author_List |
| Country | The journal's country of publication. Valid values are those country names found in the Z category of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) that may be displayed from the MeSH Browser | Country | Country |
| ISSN | The International Standard Serial Number, an eight-character value that uniquely identifies the journal. | NA | ISSN |
| Journal Issue | The issue, part, or supplement of the journal in which the article was published. | NA | Journal_Issue |
| Journal_Title | The full journal title, taken from NLM's cataloging data following NLM rules for how to compile a serial name. | NA | Journal Title |
| Journal_Title_Abbr | The standard abbreviation for the title of the journal in which the article appeared. | NA | Journal Title ABBR |
| Journal_Volume | The volume number of the journal in which the article was published. | NA | Journal Volume |
| Lang | The language(s) in which an article was published. All entries are three letter abbreviations stored in lower case, such as eng, fre, ger, jpn, etc. A table listing all languages found in MEDLINE is available at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/language_table.html. | NA | Language |
| Page_Number | The inclusive pages for the article. The pagination can be entirely non-digit data. Redundant digits are omitted. Document numbers for electronic articles are also found here. | NA | Page Number |
| PMC_ID | This field contains the unique identifier for the article in PubMed Central. | PubMed Central IDs (PMC ID) | PMC ID |
| PMID | A PubMed unique identifier. This field is a 1- to 8-digit accession number with no leading zeros. | PubMed IDs (PMID) | PMID |
| Pub_Date | The full date on which the issue of the journal was published. The standardized format consists of elements for a 4-digit year, a 3-character abbreviated month, and a 1 or 2-digit day. Not every record contains all of these elements; the data are taken as they are published in the journal issue, with minor alterations by NLM such as abbreviations. | NA | PUB Date |
| Pub_Title | The title of the journal article. The title is always in English; those titles originally published in a non-English language and translated for the title field are enclosed in square brackets. | NA | Title |
| Pub_Year | The year of publication, from Pub_Date. | Publication Years | Pub Year |
| NA | A link directs users to a list of cited by articles in Google Scholar. | NA | Articles Citing from Google Scholar |
| NA | A link directs users to a list of cited by articles in PubMed Central site. | NA | Articles Citing from PubMed Central |
| NA | A link directs users to a list of related publications in Google Scholar site. | NA | Related Publications in Google Scholar |
| NA | A link directs users to a list of related publications in PubMed. | NA | Related Publications in PubMed |
| NA | The Relative Citation Ratio is a metric developed within the NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA). RCR represents the field- and time-normalized citation rate and is benchmarked to 1.0 for a typical (median) NIH paper in the corresponding year of publication. Fields are defined for each article by using its co-citation network. This benchmarking process ensures that a paper with an RCR of 1.0 has received the same number of cites/year as the median NIH-funded paper in its field, while a paper with an RCR of 2.0 has received twice as many cites/years as the median NIH-funded paper in its field. The methodology is described in detail in Hutchins et al., PLoS Biol. 2016;14(9):e1002541. | NA | Relative Citation Ratio |
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patent_ID | A unique alpha-numeric code which identifies a federal patent. | NA | Patent Number |
| Patent_Title | Title of the patent as it appears in the US Patent and Trademark Office database of issued patents. | NA | Patent Title |
| Core_Project_Num | An identifier of the research project acknowledged as supporting development of the patent. It can be used as a key for linking with the same field in the RePORTER Project Data. | Project Number | Core NIH Project Number |
| NA | The organization or individual(s) name listed is the patent owner, which may differ from the prime grant or contract awardee. | NA | Patent Owner |
| NA | The agency that has primarily funded, and entirely manages the patent. iEdison Agency Contact information link provided. | Agency/ Institute/ Center | Primary Agency |
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core_Project_Num | An identifier of the research project acknowledged as supporting development of the Clinical Trials. It can be used as a key for linking with the same field in the RePORTER Project Data. | Project Number | Core Project Number |
| ClinicalTrials.gov ID | A unique identification code is given to each clinical study registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. Because the format is the letters "NCT" followed by an 8-digit number (for example, NCT00000419), this identifier is also known as the NCT Number. | NA | ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier |
| Study | Title of the Clinical Trial as it appears in the ClinicalTrials.gov database. | NA | Study |
| Study Status | Indicates the current stage of a clinical study. | NA | Study Status |
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMID | A PubMed unique identifier. This field is a 1- to 8-digit accession number with no leading zeros. | PubMed IDs (PMID) | PMID |
| PROJECT_NUMBER | An identifier of the research project either cited in the publication acknowledgements section or reported to have provided support in the NIH Public Access manuscript submission system. It can be used as a key for linking with the same field in the RePORTER Project. | Project Number | Core Project Number |
| ExPORTER | Description | RePORTER Search Fields | RePORTER - export |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation | The affiliation of the first author. | NA | Affiliation |
| Author_Name | A list of the publication’s authors. The format is author last name followed by a space and up to the first two initials (separated by a space) followed by a space and a suffix abbreviation, if applicable. Multiple authors are separate by a semicolon (;). | NA | Authors |
| PMID | A PubMed unique identifier. This field is a 1- to 8-digit accession number with no leading zeros. | PubMed IDs (PMID) | PMID |
| Pub_Year | The year of publication | Publication Years | PUB Year |