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The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact
A recent publication in Nature reports that public R&D funding is only weakly correlated with the citation impact of a nation's articles as measured by the field‐weighted citation index (FWCI; defined by Scopus). On the basis of the supplementary data, we up‐scaled the design using Web of S...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24109 |
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author | Leydesdorff, Loet Bornmann, Lutz Wagner, Caroline S. |
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description | A recent publication in Nature reports that public R&D funding is only weakly correlated with the citation impact of a nation's articles as measured by the field‐weighted citation index (FWCI; defined by Scopus). On the basis of the supplementary data, we up‐scaled the design using Web of Science data for the decade 2003–2013 and OECD funding data for the corresponding decade assuming a 2‐year delay (2001‐2011). Using negative binomial regression analysis, we found very small coefficients, but the effects of international collaboration are positive and statistically significant, whereas the effects of government funding are negative, an order of magnitude smaller, and statistically nonsignificant (in two of three analyses). In other words, international collaboration improves the impact of research articles, whereas more government funding tends to have a small adverse effect when comparing OECD countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-73801352020-07-27 The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact Leydesdorff, Loet Bornmann, Lutz Wagner, Caroline S. J Assoc Inf Sci Technol Brief Communication A recent publication in Nature reports that public R&D funding is only weakly correlated with the citation impact of a nation's articles as measured by the field‐weighted citation index (FWCI; defined by Scopus). On the basis of the supplementary data, we up‐scaled the design using Web of Science data for the decade 2003–2013 and OECD funding data for the corresponding decade assuming a 2‐year delay (2001‐2011). Using negative binomial regression analysis, we found very small coefficients, but the effects of international collaboration are positive and statistically significant, whereas the effects of government funding are negative, an order of magnitude smaller, and statistically nonsignificant (in two of three analyses). In other words, international collaboration improves the impact of research articles, whereas more government funding tends to have a small adverse effect when comparing OECD countries. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2018-11-22 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7380135/ /pubmed/32728598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24109 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of ASIS&T. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Leydesdorff, Loet Bornmann, Lutz Wagner, Caroline S. The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact |
title | The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact |
title_full | The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact |
title_fullStr | The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact |
title_full_unstemmed | The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact |
title_short | The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact |
title_sort | relative influences of government funding and international collaboration on citation impact |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.24109 |
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