Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on September 8, 2005
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2006 31(2):227-232; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsj071
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Editorial: Pediatric Psychology and the National Institutes of Health
Department of Public Health, Temple University
All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ronald T. Brown, PhD, ABPP, Temple University, 3307 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140. E-mail: rtbrown@temple.edu.
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External grant support has assumed increasing importance in the field of pediatric psychology. For example, during 2004, 41.5% of research articles published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology contained author acknowledgments noting that the research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and another 27.8% of the articles published acknowledged support from another federal agency or foundation. Thus, over two-thirds of research published in the Journal has endorsed support from external agencies. Although specific data are as of yet unavailable for 2005, it is suspected that external support for research articles published in 2005 will exceed that of 2004. Thus, investigator-initiated grants are driving research in pediatric psychology. In contrast, two decades ago little research in pediatric psychology was externally funded, least of all by federal agencies such as the NIH.
Although there are many pediatric psychologists who are well integrated into the NIH system, there are many
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