Is There a Relationship between Research Sponsorship and Publication Impact? An Analysis of Funding Acknowledgments in Nanotechnology Papers

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117727
• Publication Date: 2015-02-19T18:50:47Z
• Authors: Jue Wang; Philip Shapira
• Keywords: Citation impact; Web of science; Journal ranking; Citation analysis; Impact factor

This study analyzes funding acknowledgments in scientific papers to investigate relationships between research sponsorship and publication impacts. We identify sponsors for nanotechnology published the Web of Science during a one-year sample period. examine citations accrued by these journal impact factors their titles. The results show that publications from grant sponsored exhibit higher impacts terms both ranking citation counts than is not sponsored. discuss method models used, insights provided this approach as well it limitations.