Using NIH’s Research Portfolio Online Report Tool (RePORT) to Your Advantage

June 2013

Megan ColumbusDirector, Division of Communications and OutreachNIH Office of Extramural Research

Providing access to reports, data and analyses on

NIH supported research activities

RePORT.nih.gov

Launched in 2008, new features continually implemented since then!

Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool

RePORT: Opening the black box…

report.nih.gov

Which ICs fund

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NIH grantees in your area

Success rates

Organizational

funding information

Award trends

Providing a wide range of reports & data

NIH staff contacts

www.grants.nih.gov/

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Let’s run through an example that show’s the power of RePORT

Let’s say I am interested in obesity research...

Start big picture. Any NIH reports on obesity research?

Let’s look at strategic plans

Here’s a strategic plan for obesity research!

Can provide long term view of NIH interests

Let’s search to learn who and what NIH funds on this topic

Text search for obesity (would be best to narrow the search…)

obesity

4,302 active projects - yikes!

How to understand our result? Try the Data and Visualize tab.

Now it is more clear which ICs fund obesity research!

Or maybe you’d like the data in a pie chart to export for a presentation

Circles tab helps visualize specific scientific areas

Drill down to narrow field of science and find individual grants

Mapping tools show us where the research is being done

Input state to drill down

Search results screen also provides info on clinical studies,

patentspress releases and stories

and publications

Back to hit list to delve deeper into an individual project

Description tab – project abstract, terms and more

Details tab provides PI contact info and profile(if this is you, add profile info by clicking on icon)

NIH program official for this grant

FOA

Review panel

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PI profiles – one example

Results tab provides publications and patents resulting from the project(Pubs missing? If you are the PI, add them!)

Use Nearby Projects tab to locate others who may be working locally on your topic of interest

Is this project very close to your area of research interest? Use similar projects tab to find more projects like this one!

Text mining. Higher match scores = more similar projects

RePORTER allows you to search on many criteria.

Award notice date, FOA, study section are just a few!

Look what happens when you select study section

Expand a category to drill down

Learn more by browsing the NIH portfolio – filters narrow your view

Pick an IC and see who and what they are funding.

Maybe you are interested in what they do intramurally.

Want to monitor what NIH is funding in your field, in response to an FOA, or at your institution?

Save portfolios or queries.

Set email alerts for updates to queries

Email results

Interested in funding data for your institution or state?

Want to know what types of organizations NIH funds?

Interested in who at your institution has NIH funding?

Sort by headingDrill down to grant level data

Select criteria Select output

Enter an institution name in the search box…

Find total funding, PIs, location, etc.

Using this drop down can get you data by department or by activity code

Quick access to stats

Funding FactsQuick access to facts on NIH apps, awards, funding, and success rates

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Aggregate or by year, IC, mechanism, activity, new/continuing

Funding Facts

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Quick searches for

a single answer…

…Or retrieve all years and analyze trends over time

Find yearly summary stats on who and what NIH funds.

Drill down for information on the following topics

Produced annually!

Export graphs directly to PowerPoint

Learn how much NIH spends on various disease areas

Use ExPORTER to get the data to do your own detailed analysis

RePORT tutorials available under About Report link

Let’s go live and see how RePORT does at answering some of your questions…

RePORT.nih.gov

I encourage you to explore. Information is power!