“…For instance, funding information has been used to predict research visibility, researchers' maturity, authors' intention to collaborate, and prolific funding agencies. Funding information has also been included in some national, institutional, or regional research policies in assessing researchers or research institutions for promotion, funding consideration, ranking, and awards [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Librarians may be asked to analyze the linkages between funding and academic publications, information sources or research topics, identify funding possibilities, to perform bibliometric analyses involving funding acknowledgment patterns identification and similar [13][14][15]The emergence of the COVID pandemic has increased the need for researchers to be informed about funding strategies for COVID research and there are a the number of bibliometric funding studies which analyze international cooperation in COVID research [16], funding of COVID research projects [17], and the funding of COVID vaccine development [18].…”