
Insider view: How the ERC mapped science frontiers
Just as a digital picture has thousands of pixels that are necessary to build up its final image, the ERC aimed to see what type of pictures it could build up using the thousands of projects it has funded. Specifically, the 6,707 frontier research…

External opinion: Mapping of ERC funded projects
An external perspective on the recent exercise to map ERC frontier research projects, from information science experts Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière.A defining feature of the European Research Council (ERC) funding programs are that they…

Mapping the frontiers of science - ERC Scientific Council editorial
The ERC’s bottom-up approach to funding research has sparked 6700 projects under the Horizon 2020 framework programme, many of which have pushed scientific frontiers and advanced knowledge in fields varying from mathematics to linguistics and from…

Insider view: How the ERC mapped science frontiers
Just as a digital picture has thousands of pixels that are necessary to build up its final image, the ERC aimed to see what type of pictures it could build up using the thousands of projects it has funded. Specifically, the 6,707 frontier research…