A manual content analysis of the research proposals was performed in order to address research objective b. The content analysis afforded for a systematic approach to collect data about the research methods and the background of the authors. These data are then used to cross-tabulate with the research themes found in the automated content analysis (i.e., research objective a) and citation analysis (i.e., research objective c). Specifically, each submission was categorized into one of the four categories in relation to research objective a: