Journal of Documentation
On determinants of citation scores: a case study in chemical engineering
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Acknowledgments and intellectual indebtedness: a bibliometric conjecture
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Accounting for influence: acknowledgments in contemporary sociology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visible, less visible, and invisible work: patterns of collaboration in 20th century chemistry
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation (Information Science & Knowledge Management)
Modeling the invisible college
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Science funding and research output: a study on 10 countries
Scientometrics
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Understanding the role of acknowledgments given by researchers in their publications has been a recurrent challenge in the bibliometric field, but relatively unexplored until now. This study presents a general bibliometric analysis on the new “funding acknowledgment” (FA) information available in the Web of Science. All publications covered by the database in 2009 have been analyzed. The presence and length of the FA text, as well as the presence of “peer interactive communication” in the acknowledgments, are related to impact indicators, distribution of papers by fields, countries of the authors, and collaboration level of the papers. It is observed that publications with FAs present a higher impact as compared with publications without them. There are also differences across countries and disciplines in the share of publications with FAs and the acknowledgment of peer interactive communication. China is the country with the highest share of publications acknowledging funding, while the presence of FAs in the humanities and social sciences is very low compared to the more basic disciplines. The presence of peer interactive communication in acknowledgments can be linked to countries that have a strong scientific tradition and are incorporated in scientific networks. Peer interactive communication is also common in the fields of humanities and social sciences and can be linked to lower levels of co-authorship. Observed patterns are explained and topics of future research are proposed. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.