Novelty of Biomedical Research Papers The zip file NIH_EDGE_SCIENCE_DATA_AND_PROGRAMS.zip (3.07 GB) contains the data and programs for replicating the statistical analyses in Packalen M and J Bhattacharya (2020) "NIH Funding and the Pursuit of Edge Science". Earlier version of the paper was circulated as NBER working paper No. 24860, titled "Does the NIH Fund Edge Science" https://www.nber.org/papers/w24860 Inside the zip file, the file Readme_NIHEdgeScience_StatisticalAnalyses.pdf contains documentation for the data files and programs.