Introdation

Terms and conditions

Table of Research Interests

Submission

Applications

Introdation 

Within a series of institutional Funding programs for research and development at King Saud University, which are supported by the Ministry of Education, the Deanship of Scientific Research launches the initiative of the "Directed Research Articles’ Program", which aims to achieve excellence by supporting areas of national research priorities, thus contributing to achieving the University's leadership in the quality of research production and plans for development and assistance in solving community problems. Through this program, the Deanship seeks to adopt a research strategy capable of achieving the goals of the institutional Funding program by exploiting the University's resources and capabilities represented in the strong infrastructure and distinguished human cadres.

In line with the research priorities identified at King Saud University that exist within the national research priorities, the program provides support for distinguished research projects directed at one of the research concentrations in research activities within the areas of six research priorities identified by the University:

1- Clean and sustainable energy

2- Health and human well-being

3- Digital innovations

4- Food, water, and environment

5- Petrochemicals

6- Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education

Which contributes to providing distinguished scientific production and developing the map of research, development and innovation at the university
in a way that achieves the goals of the Kingdom's Vision 2030.

Terms and conditions

1. The applicant researcher and the participating research team should be of faculty members, and their likeness at King Saud University.
2. The research team may include consultant researchers from outside the university with a maximum of two.
3. It is possible to collaborate with researchers (not included in the application form) from outside the university, whether from inside or outside the Kingdom, with no more than 30% of the names of the research team on the research outputs.
4. The proposed research proposal should be within one of the research interests of the university’s six research priorities and in the field of specialization of the research team.
5. The submitted research proposal should be prepared based on the guideline.
6. The principal investigator and the research team should adhere to the performance indicators provided with the application request as a tool for evaluating the results and the research project's progress report.
7. Performance indicators will be treated as tools for assessing disbursement and evaluating the entire research project spent and expenditure.
8. When the minimum performance indicators are not presented, spending on the research project will stop and the accounting will be done based on linking the performance rate with the value of what had been spent, and the deanship has the right to request the return of the disbursement in case of not presenting what is suitable for the performance indicators.
9. The applicant researcher has to publish a minimum of two research scientific papers, and ONLY original scientific articles (Research Article Type) will be accepted.
10. It is required that the scientific paper should be published in a journal included in the (Web of Science-ISI) database and indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded-SCI-E), or the Social Science Citation Index Expanded-SSCI- E), or the Arts & Humanities Citation Index Expanded- A & HCI, and should be cited in the first quarter (Q1) or the second quarter (Q2) according to the Journal Citation Reports- JCR average (AJIF) when published.
11. In the event of submitting a patent, only patents registered and granted by the accredited offices: The American office, the European office, the Japanese office, and the King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology will be accepted.
12. A dedicated team will evaluate presented innovations and prototypes.
13. Both the first and corresponding authors should be from King Saud University in the research outcome.
14. The principal investigator (PI) should be the first author or the correspondent author in the scientific product.
15. The ONLY entity to be thanked for this research work is the Agency for Research and Innovation in the Ministry of Education as the SOLE funding agency, and not to thank any other funding party inside or outside the Kingdom.
16. The principal investigator and the co-researchers affiliated with King Saud University must indicate their belonging to the university as a sole affiliation in the scientific product.
17. All the research team and the correspondent researcher from King Saud University must use the King Saud University e-mail in all correspondence regarding the scientific product.
18. In the case of scientific publication, research papers that exceed 20% and no more than 3% similarity will not be accepted from the same source.
19. In the event of establishing a laboratory, the research team must place a sign (or something similar) stating that the laboratory is funded by the Institutional Funding at King Saud University.
20. The necessity to commit to the rules and standards of ethics for scientific research.
21. Intellectual property rights apply to the articles of the Institutional Financing Agreement.

Table of Research Interests

Submission

Applications will be received electronically starting from 01/06/2021 until 26/10/2021  via the website

Please complete the application form (used as a backup copy in conjunction with the application form on the website), KPIs and CVs of the members of the research team and consultants, embed as a zip file and address the name of the head of the research team and research interest and send it to the e-mail IFKSUDR@ksu.edu.sa

• Guide Manual
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Form

Applications

• Application Form
• Budget Form

For more information, please contact us via the program’s e-mail:  IFKSUDR@ksu.edu.sa