A new graphic has shown how Britain's 'Leave' vote in the EU referendum will impact funding for UK research.
The interactive graphics have been designed by wizdom.ai, described as "the world's largest research knowledge graph". Powered by AI, wizdom.ai attempts to answer "the most fundamental questions for researchers, research institutions, publishers, funding organisations, businesses and governments".
"Britain's role in global research is key, and irrespective of the outcome of the referendum, it is critical research in the UK is not adversely affected," wizdom.ai wrote in a blog post. "Looking beyond the referendum, the question of how to keep UK competitive in terms of its research output is particularly pressing as the UK already experiences a decline in its publication output since 2012."
The dashboard – which is updated in real time – will be a "research tracker" to help researchers and institutions track EU grants and evaluate their competitiveness, and for policy-makers to "monitor the situation while it unfolds". It is also a resource for taxpayers, who wizdom.ai say "eventually fund public research".
The dashboard was created by mapping 150 terabytes of data, 78 million publications, 50 million authors, 60,000 journals, 50,000 institutions and $700 billion (£500 billion) in research funding.
This data was then used to map institutions' relationships with the EU. The UK has recently received 16.7 per cent of the EU's research funding – around £6.7 billion.
The largest portion of this funding was from Oxford and Cambridge, which received more than £800 million between them since 2007.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
