The following examples are illustrative.   We look forward to hearing from you. 

Caleb Smith  (University of Michigan Medical School) 

Caleb has collaborated with SciTech Strategies on two major projects over the past 10 years.   The initial efforts focused on research proposals – specifically ~20,000 proposals submitted by UMMS over a 5 year period.   This effort yielded important information about the determinates of proposal success and failure.  The team was also able to identify race/gender biases from different funding sources.   To our knowledge, there are no other research universities in the US that have conducted this type of analysis on a full sample of the proposals they submit for funding- and published their results in the peer review literature. 

Our second collaboration is more risky and creative.  Caleb was interested in gaining a deeper understanding of translational medicine by focusing on the links between research communities.   These are not just single links; these are series of links that represent the path from bench to bedside.  One can conceptualize this as ‘threads’ through the network of research communities.   Preliminary results (which includes using AI to summarize the characteristics of these ‘threads’) have been presented at STI (Science and Technology Indicators) conferences (2022, 2025).    

Dewey Murdick (Georgetown University) 

Dewey was previously the program officer for the FUSE program at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).   He then went to the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where a global model of the open literature (using SciTech methods) was built.  He recently accepted a position at Georgetown University.  Our recent presentation at an NBER conference, the poster session for ICSSI, and a presentation scheduled for the STI conference in Antwerp represents the current status of this collaboration.