Success Rates for NIH K Awards

The NIH provides Success Rates for Career Development Awards. Below, you will find interactive plots for Fiscal Years 2014-2023 and can analyze success rates by individual institute or by all for the primary extramural, mentored career development awards (K01, K08, K23, K99). These interactive plots were created using Observable JS. You can download the publicly available dataset from the NIH. You can also find a copy in the data folder of the GitHub repository.

Interactive Plots

data = transpose(data_json)

nih_institutes = ["NCI", "NEI", "NHLBI", "NHGRI", "NIA", "NIAAA", "NIAID", "NIAMS", "NIBIB", "NICHD", "NIDCD", "NIDCR", "NIDDK", "NIDA", "NIEHS", "NIGMS", "NIMH", "NIMHD", "NINDS", "NINR", "NLM"]

viewof selected_nih_institute = Inputs.select(["All"].concat(nih_institutes), {label: "NIH Institute"})

viewof activity_codes = Inputs.checkbox(
  ["K01", "K08", "K23", "K99"], 
  { value: ["K08", "K01", "K23", "K99"], 
    label: "Activity Code:"
  }
)

filtered = data.filter(function(d) {
  return activity_codes.includes(d.activity_code) && d.nih_institute === selected_nih_institute;
})
html`<br>`

html `<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> Success Rates by Fiscal Year </div>`

plt1 = Plot.plot({
  color: {legend: true, label: "Activity Code"},
  marks: [
    Plot.lineY(filtered, {x: "fiscal_year", y: "success_rate", 
    stroke: "activity_code", 
    channels: {
      n_awarded: {value: "n_awarded", label: "No. Awarded"},
      n_applications:{value: "n_applications", label: "No. Applications"}},
    tip: {
      format: {x:"d", z:false, y: d3.format(",.0%")}}})
    ],
    style: {fontSize: "11px"},
    x: {label: "Fiscal Year", tickFormat: d3.format("d")},
    y: {label: "Success Rate", tickFormat: d3.format(",.0%")}
    })

html `<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> Applications by Fiscal Year </div>`

plt2 = Plot.plot({
  color: {legend: true, label: "Activity Code"},
  marks: [
    Plot.barY(filtered, {x: "fiscal_year", y: "n_applications", fill: "activity_code", tip: {format: {x:"d"}}})
    ],
    x: {label: "Fiscal Year", tickFormat: "d"},
    y: {label: "No. of Applications"},
    fill: {label: "Activity Code"},
    style: {fontSize: "11px"}
    })