Funding acknowledgment analysis:Queries and Caveats
Digital Libraries
2016-05-09 v1
Abstract
Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (WoS) began systematically collecting acknowledgment information in August 2008. Since then, bibliometric analysis of funding acknowledgment (FA) has been growing and has aroused intense interest and attention from both academia and policy makers. Examining the distribution of FA by citation index database, by language, and by acknowledgment type, we noted coverage limitations and potential biases in each analysis. We argue that in spite of its great value, bibliometric analysis of FA should be used with caution.
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@article{arxiv.1601.00245,
title = {Funding acknowledgment analysis:Queries and Caveats},
author = {Li Tang and Guangyuan Hu and Weishu Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00245},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
8 pages 2 tables, accepted by JASIST