THE RESEARCH SEER'S RATIONALE

Research funding- Advantages

The researchers worldwide opt for research funding for various beneficial reasons. A few of them can be stated as follows:

• To obtain financial support: A researcher needing to perform research with expensive equipment, data gathering or data analysis procedures might opt for research funding, which could otherwise lead him/her to terminate the research or yield meaningless research outcomes

• To collaborate with wider scientific community: A funder granting monetary support for specific research has link with so many researchers working on the same domain. Hence, the researcher on opting funding might collaborate with rest of the research community to speed up the completion of quality research with extensive facilities

• To improve the reach and the credibility of research: A research being funded will have more chances to get published in high-impact journals and hence, reach greater research audience across various disciplines. In fact, most renowned open-access journals prioritize funded research for publication than the non-funded counterparts. Most journals prefer funded research, for they believe that the research is strictly conducted with ethical standards and quality to serve a definite purpose of the funding organization

• To open up career opportunities: A research being completed with funding increases the reputation of the researcher, as his/her research findings will be deemed impactful to the society or its own domain by the renowned journals too. Hence, the researchers can employ funding assistance to make career advancements

Research funding- Extremely necessary?

Despite the fact that research funding influences the research and its researcher in an optimistic manner, confusion still exists on whether it is really required or what happens to the research with no funding access. Hence, there are several questions that the researchers have to answer on their own, before opting for funding and they are as follows:

• • • Does my research involve high-cost data collection procedures or expensive apparatus for experimentation, which are unaffordable by me?

    • Is my research a long-term one, needing fund to make larger and deeper investigations of societal impact?

    • Does the funding organization’s research notion match my research theme or will it direct my research in a totally different way?

    • Can my research be completed at the stipulated time of the funding organization?

    • Can I manage the fund in an appropriate way, adhering to the funding organization’s guidelines?

    • Am I willing to share the copyrights/ commercial rights of the research outcomes, as per the funders’ terms and conditions?