Characterization, description, and considerations for the use of funding acknowledgement data in Web of Science
Characterization, description, and considerations for the use of funding acknowledgement data in Web of Science
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-016-1953-y
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发表时间：
2016-07-01
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3.9
通讯作者：
Costas, Rodrigo
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作者：
Paul-Hus, Adele;Desrochers, Nadine;Costas, Rodrigo
自 20 世纪 70 年代以来，科学出版物中的资助致谢一直被用来研究资助对研究的影响。然而，直到 2008 年，汤森路透的 Web of Science 开始将资助确认信息添加到其书目记录中，该副文本元素才被广泛索引。由于这些新信息为可以系统利用的文献计量数据提供了新的维度，因此了解这些数据的特征及其使用的潜在含义非常重要。本文分析了 Web of Science 中涵盖的资助确认数据的存在和分布。我们的结果表明，2009 年之前的资助确认覆盖率极低，因此不可靠。自 2008 年以来，主要收集科学引文索引扩展中索引的出版物的资助信息；最近（2015 年），已实施将资助文本纳入社会科学引文索引索引的出版物。艺术与人文引文索引内容未针对资助致谢数据编制索引。此外，英文出版物是最可靠的。最后，并非所有类型的文档都同样涵盖资助信息索引，只有文章和评论显示一致的覆盖范围。因此，汤森路透收集的资助确认信息的特征可以帮助理解数据提供的可能性及其局限性。
Funding acknowledgements found in scientific publications have been used to study the impact of funding on research since the 1970s. However, no broad scale indexation of that paratextual element was done until 2008, when Thomson Reuters' Web of Science started to add funding acknowledgement information to its bibliographic records. As this new information provides a new dimension to bibliometric data that can be systematically exploited, it is important to understand the characteristics of these data and the underlying implications for their use. This paper analyses the presence and distribution of funding acknowledgement data covered in Web of Science. Our results show that prior to 2009 funding acknowledgements coverage is extremely low and therefore not reliable. Since 2008, funding information has been collected mainly for publications indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded; more recently (2015), inclusion of funding texts for publications indexed in the Social Science Citation Index has been implemented. Arts & Humanities Citation Index content is not indexed for funding acknowledgement data. Moreover, English-language publications are the most reliably covered. Finally, not all types of documents are equally covered for funding information indexation and only articles and reviews show consistent coverage. The characterization of the funding acknowledgement information collected by Thomson Reuters can therefore help understand the possibilities offered by the data but also their limitations.