Serendipity in Research and Innovation

Project Information

SIRI

Grant agreement ID: 759897

DOI

10.3030/759897

Project closed

EC signature date 10 January 2018

Start date 1 June 2018

End date 31 May 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 423 227,52

EU contribution

€ 1 423 227,52

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

How unpredictable is research impact? Evidence from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework

Author(s): Ohid Yaqub, Dmitry Malkov, Josh Siepel
Published in: Research Evaluation, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 273-285, ISSN 0958-2029
Publisher: Beech Tree Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvad019

Cross-disease spillover from research funding: Evidence from four diseases

Author(s): Josie Coburn, Ohid Yaqub, Ismael Ràfols, Joanna Chataway
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, Issue 349, 2024, Page(s) 116883, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116883

Responding to a disease with resources from other diseases: Evidence from Zika vaccine research dynamics

Author(s): Ohid Yaqub, Javier A Luna, Duncan Aq Moore, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros
Published in: Science and Public Policy, Issue 49, 2024, Page(s) 942-950, ISSN 0302-3427
Publisher: Beech Tree Publishing
DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scac040

Research-targeting, spillovers, and the direction of science: Evidence from HIV research-funding

Author(s): Ohid Yaqub, Josie Coburn, Duncan A.Q. Moore
Published in: Research Policy, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 105076, ISSN 0048-7333
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105076

Unexpectedness in medical research

Author(s): Yasemin Aslan, Ohid Yaqub, Bhaven N. Sampat, Daniele Rotolo
Published in: Research Policy, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 105075, ISSN 0048-7333
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105075

Making modafinil: Classification and serendipity in drug development

Author(s): Stephen J Scholte, Ohid Yaqub
Published in: Social Studies of Science, 2025, ISSN 0306-3127
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03063127251322113

Serendipity: Towards a taxonomy and a theory

Author(s): Ohid Yaqub
Published in: Research Policy, Issue 47/1, 2018, Page(s) 169-179, ISSN 0048-7333
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.10.007

Manual versus machine: How accurately does the Medical Text Indexer (MTI) classify different document types into disease areas?

Author(s): Duncan A. Q. Moore, Ohid Yaqub, Bhaven N. Sampat
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0297526, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297526

JIFs, giraffes, and a diffusion of culpability: A response to Osterloh and Frey's discussion paper on ‘Borrowed plumes’

Author(s): Ohid Yaqub
Published in: Research Policy, Issue 49/1, 2020, Page(s) 103868, ISSN 0048-7333
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2019.103868

The spread of retracted research into policy literature

Author(s): Dmitry Malkov, Ohid Yaqub, Josh Siepel
Published in: Quantitative Science Studies, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 68-90, ISSN 2641-3337
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/qss_a_00243

Book chapters (1)

Targeting research to address societal needs: what can we learn from 30 years of targeting neglected diseases?

Author(s): Josie Coburn, Ohid Yaqub, Joanna Chataway
Published in: Handbook of Public Funding of Research, 2024, Page(s) 156-171
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781800883086.00016