… research grants are funded based on several factors: the number of citations in a paper, impact factor of the journal, name recognition, whether research in a field is already underway. It’s a high bar to get research published, let alone funded, and yet the subjectiveness of it all can be … Data Analytics program, is also an author in this endeavor. “It’s trying to get away from being quite so subjective and make it more of an even playing field,” …