RoRI Research Funding Landscapes explores how to prioritize research agendas and align priorities with societal needs through the distribution of funding over diseases and research fields. The document outlines challenges in priority setting for health research funding and distribution over different diseases and research areas for a given disease. It introduces a demonstration project using scientometric data and tools combined with expert knowledge on priority setting as a first step toward a RoRI research program on improving methods for research priority setting.

1. RoRI Research Funding
Landscapes: The Challenge
of Priority Setting
LUDO WALTMAN

2. Priority setting
How to choose which research agendas to
support?
How to align research priorities with
societal needs?
For instance, in health research, how to
distribute funding over different diseases?
And for a given disease, how to distribute
funding over different research fields?
Source: James and Wilsdon (2018)

5. RoRI research funding landscapes
Freely available at http://researchonresearch.org
Demonstration of possibilities offered by advanced
use of scientometric data and tools combined with
expert knowledge on priority setting
First step toward a RoRI research program on
priority setting