The Matching Degrees of Research Projects with Their Papers

Scientific research projects play a positive role in the development of scientific researches. Although researchers continue to study the paper output of projects, the correlation between projects and papers in research contents and topics is still unclear. Based on the data set NSFCD from China, the topics of papers are divided and the matching degree between projects and paper topics is defined to reveal the relationship between projects and papers. The results show that the research contents of projects and papers have some relevance, but the low values of matching degree indicate that the correlation between them is not evident. This work proposes a quantitative method for evaluating projects with paper topics and suggests that the quality of projects’ outputs needs to be strengthened. The papers published by project participants should be related to project contents.