Science funding and research output: a study on 10 countries

Wang, Xianwen; Liu, Di; Ding, Kun; Wang, Xinran

doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0576-6

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“…In recent years, with the development of bibliographic database for recording the funding information, numerous funded articles lead to an interesting aggregative level in scientometrics. Most previous studies can be divided into two main categories: (A) Fundamental analysis methods and indicators, such as innovative analytical frameworks of acknowledge information (Costas and van Leeuwen 2012;Diaz-Faes and Bordons 2014;Shapira and Wang 2010), h-index of research funding (Zhao et al 2009) and concise input-output measure (Zhao and Ye 2011); (B) The empirical investigations in a specific subject or aggregative level, for instance, the funded nano research (Wang and Shapira 2011), funded collaborations in mathematics (Zhou and Tian 2014), the feature of funded SCI articles of Iran (Jowkar et al 2011), funding analysis of SCI articles at the country level (Wang et al 2012) and the funded collaboration network of countries/territories (Tan et al 2012b). These studies mainly deal with the research articles in natural sciences.…”

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Funding ratios in social science: the perspective of countries/territories level and comparison with natural sciences

Tan

Zhao

2015

Scientometrics

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Research funding plays a key role in current science, thus it has become an aggregative interesting level in scientometric analysis. In this work, we try to explore the funding ratios of 21 major countries/territories in social science based on 813,809 research articles collected from the Web of Science and indexed by the Social Sciences Citation Index covering the period from 2009 to 2013. The results show that the funding ratios of sample countries/territories in social science are far below that in natural science and some specific subjects (chemistry, engineering, physics, neurosciences). However, there is a positive correlation between them. The funding ratios of People's Republic of China, Sweden and Japan rank the top 3 (over 30 %). Generally, the funding ratios of the top 1 % and top 10 % highly cited articles are higher than those of the rest of articles, and for most cases, the high funding ratio of all articles is related to the high funding ratio of the highly cited articles.

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Funding ratios in social science: the perspective of countries/territories level and comparison with natural sciences

Tan

Zhao

2015

Scientometrics

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“…Wang et al (2012) analyse named sponsors on academic publications in 10 selected countries. They show for the UK that 43% of academic publications acknowledge external funding and report an average of 2.8 funding agents per paper.…”

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Fishing for Complementarities: Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity

Hottenrott¹,

Lawson

2013

SSRN Journal

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW. Non-technical SummaryIn most countries in Europe, where universities have primarily been financed through block grants, governments have introduced or increased the amount of funding distributed through competitive funding schemes (Stephan, 2012). Additionally, shrinking public research budgets meant that researchers are increasingly encouraged to look for funding elsewhere, e.g. source funding from industry and other sponsors. This resulted in a shift towards private sponsorship in most OECD countries (OECD, 2010). Funding from multiple sponsors can facilitate resource-intensive research, while at the same time creating the challenge to attribute research efforts and human resources to each project. Importantly, given the significant effects of industry grants on research outcomes (Hottenrott and Thorwarth, 2011; BanalEstañol et al., 2013), it is of interest whether industry sponsorship accelerates or compromises the positive effect of public research funding.Thus, when studying the relationship between research funding and research productivity, it is important to note that industry sponsorship cannot be evaluated without considering its impact on the productivity effects from other types of funding. The effect could be positive if industry and public grants promote research that is complementary, whereas a negative effect might indicate that scientists face a trade-off between allocating time and research effort to one or the other sponsor. This study aims to fill a gap in the literature by investigating the joint effect of funding from public and private sponsors on the research productivity in terms of quantity and quality of a sample of 809 engineering academics from 15 universities in the UK.We find that industry funding decreases the publication increase associated with public funding by reducing the marginal effect of public grants on publication outcomes in . This indicates that researchers are working at full capacity and increases in funding do not translate into comparative increases in research output when multiple sponsors are involved. This negative interaction effect is found for co-sponsorship from UK funders, which include UK research councils and charities, but is insignificant for EU grants. At the same time it is important to note that industry funding does not compromise the positive effect of public funding but only reduces the rate of publication increase associated with public grants. We further note, that significant benefits in terms ...

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“…Correlation between the indicators of research output, namely, the number of publications, times cited, share in the world output and R&D funding was studied at the level of individual researchers [6], grant issuing organizations [7] or research-leading countries [8,9], correlation of research output and readership was reported at the level of individual documents within a single journal [10[, institutional [11,12] and country [9] levels. Therefore, one can conclude that problem of information support is one of the key problems in modern research surroundings.…”

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Twelve years of access to electronic serials in Russia: Results and perspectives

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Разумова²

2017

The Serials Librarian

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We investigated collection development within the system of information support of research in Russia on the state-funded level. The analysis has been performed from the point of view of structure and research output of Russian science. We employed the method of bibliometric analysis using InCites by Clarivate Analytics. The results demonstrate that the state funded subscription provides more than 55% of total world output and meets about 70% of communication needs of Russian researchers in all ESI research areas. A strong correlation of informational support and research output is demonstrated.

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Science funding and research output: a study on 10 countries

Cited by 81 publications

References 6 publications

Funding ratios in social science: the perspective of countries/territories level and comparison with natural sciences

Funding ratios in social science: the perspective of countries/territories level and comparison with natural sciences

Fishing for Complementarities: Competitive Research Funding and Research Productivity

Twelve years of access to electronic serials in Russia: Results and perspectives

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