title: Is there a relationship between research sponsorship and publication impact? An analysis of funding acknowledgments in nanotechnology papers.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Public Policy and Global Affairs Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
authors.forename: Jue
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shapira
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D036103:Nanotechnology; D011643:Publishing / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012106:Research / Q000191:economics*