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

• Main Authors: Wang, Jue, Shapira, Philip
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Service agencies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107208; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25331
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...