Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences.

ABSTRACT: For the past 50 years, acknowledgments have been studied as important paratextual traces of research practices, collaboration, and infrastructure in science. Since 2008, funding acknowledgments have been indexed by Web of Science, supporting large-scale analyses of research funding. Applying advanced linguistic methods as well as Correspondence Analysis to more than one million acknowledgments from research articles and reviews published in 2015, this paper aims to go beyond funding disclosure and study the main types of contributions found in acknowledgments on a large scale and through disciplinary comparisons. Our analysis shows that technical support is more frequently acknowledged by scholars in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering. Earth and Space, Professional Fields, and Social Scien

SUBMITTER: Paul-Hus A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5627922 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature