What is the relationship between research funding and citation-based performance? A comparative analysis between critical disciplines.

Autor/inn/en	Roshani, Saeed; Bagherylooieh, Mohammad-Reza; Mosleh, Melika; Coccia, Mario
Titel	What is the relationship between research funding and citation-based performance? A comparative analysis between critical disciplines.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2021) 9, S.7859-7874 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-021-04077-9
Schlagwörter	Research funding; Science creation; Science diffusion; Citations; Scientific development; Papers; Power-law distribution; Matthew effect
Abstract	Abstract The goal of the study here is to model and analyze the relation between research funding and citation-based performance in science to predict the diffusion of new scientific results in society. In fact, an important problem in the field of scientometrics is to explain factors determining the growth of citations in documents that can increase the diffusion of scientific results and the impact of science on society. The study here confronts this problem by developing a scientometric analysis to clarify, whenever possible, the relation between research funding and citations of articles in critical disciplines. Data of 2015 retrieved from the Web of Science database relating to the three critical disciplines given by computer science, medicine and economics are analyzed. Results suggest that computer science journals published more funded than unfunded papers. Medicine journals published equally funded and unfunded documents, and finally economics journals published more unfunded than funded papers. In addition, funded documents received more citations than unfunded papers in all three disciplines under study. The study also finds that citations in funded, unfunded and total (funded + unfunded) papers follow a power-law distribution in different disciplines. Another novel finding is that for all disciplines under study, the Matthew effect is greater for funded articles compared to unfunded documents. The results here can support best practices of research policy directed to fund vital scientific research for increasing the diffusion of science and scientific findings in society.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05