Is there a relationship between research sponsorship and publication impact? An analysis of funding acknowledgments in nanotechnology papers

This study analyzes funding acknowledgments in scientific papers to investigate relationships between research sponsorship and publication impacts. We identify acknowledgments to research sponsors for nanotechnology papers published in the Web of Science during a one-year sample period. We examine t...

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Main Authors: Wang, Jue, Shapira, Philip
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107208
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25331
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This study analyzes funding acknowledgments in scientific papers to investigate relationships between research sponsorship and publication impacts. We identify acknowledgments to research sponsors for nanotechnology papers published in the Web of Science during a one-year sample period. We examine the citations accrued by these papers and the journal impact factors of their publication titles. The results show that publications from grant sponsored research exhibit higher impacts in terms of both journal ranking and citation counts than research that is not grant sponsored. We discuss the method and models used, and the insights provided by this approach as well as it limitations.