Scholarly gratitude in five geographical contexts: a diachronic and cross-generic approach of the acknowledgment paratext in medical discourse (1950–2010)

Salager‐Meyer, Françoise; Alcaraz-Ariza, María Ángeles; Briceño, Marianela Luzardo; Jabbour, Georges

doi:10.1007/s11192-010-0329-y

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The fact that FA is more likely to appear in articles than in reviews was also observed by Costas and van Leeuwen () and Salager‐Meyer et al. (). It is clear that articles including original research require more collaboration and infrastructure than reviews, which usually consist of elaboration of previous research on a specific topic.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Interestingly, differences by discipline in the frequency of acknowledgments (Costas & van Leeuwen, ) and in the prevailing type of support acknowledged have been observed (Cronin et al., ). Acknowledgments seem to be more frequent in the hard sciences but more elaborated in the humanities and social sciences (Salager‐Meyer, Alcaraz‐Ariza, Luzardo‐Briceño, & Jabbour, ). Although financial support emerges as the prevailing type in some disciplines such as chemistry (Cronin et al., ) and psychology (Cronin et al., ), the conceptual type is the most common in other fields, as in the case of philosophy (Cronin et al., ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Acknowledgments in scientific publications: Presence in Spanish science and text patterns across disciplines

Díaz-Faes

Bordons

2014

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The acknowledgments in scientific publications are an important feature in the scholarly communication process. This research analyzes funding acknowledgment presence in scientific publications and introduces a novel approach for discovering text patterns by discipline in the acknowledgment section of papers. First, the presence of acknowledgments in 38,257 English‐language papers published by Spanish researchers in 2010 is studied by subject area on the basis of the funding acknowledgment information available in the Web of Science database. Funding acknowledgments are present in two thirds of Spanish articles, with significant differences by subject area, number of authors, impact factor of journals, and, in one specific area, basic/applied nature of research. Second, the existence of specific acknowledgment patterns in English‐language papers of Spanish researchers in 4 selected subject categories (cardiac and cardiovascular systems, economics, evolutionary biology, and statistics and probability) is explored through a combination of text mining and multivariate analyses. “Peer interactive communication” predominates in the more theoretical or social‐oriented fields (statistics and probability, economics), whereas the recognition of technical assistance is more common in experimental research (evolutionary biology), and the mention of potential conflicts of interest emerges forcefully in the clinical field (cardiac and cardiovascular systems). The systematic inclusion of structured data about acknowledgments in journal articles and bibliographic databases would have a positive impact on the study of collaboration practices in science.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 68%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acknowledgments in scientific publications: Presence in Spanish science and text patterns across disciplines

Díaz-Faes

Bordons

2014

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“…(in press). Among the reasons for this strong pattern in China, we suggest the following: a different orientation in its scientific lines as compared with other countries (with a greater focus on natural sciences and engineering; Science‐Metrix, ); a strong investment in research in this country in recent years (Royal Society, ); cultural differences in authorship and acknowledgment in Asian countries (Salager‐Meyer et al., ; Salita, ) with stronger ideas of gratitude; and also the idea that Chinese researchers use more of their funding as a signal of potential research capacity…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some authors have provided important initial steps in analyzing this type of information (see the bibliographic reviews by Hyland, ; Rigby, ; Salager‐Meyer et al., ) Blaise Cronin and colleagues are among the most important pioneers on this topic within the library and information science discipline, having analyzed acknowledgments in different fields and journals (Cronin et al., ; Cronin, Shaw, & La Barre, ; Cronin, Shaw, & La Barre, ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

Costas

Leeuwen

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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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.

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Funding acknowledgment analysis: Queries and caveats

Tang

Liu

2016

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Thomson Reuters's Web of Science (WoS) began systematically collecting acknowledgment information in August 2008. Since then, bibliometric analysis of funding acknowledgment (FA) has been growing and has aroused intense interest and attention from both academia and policy makers. Examining the distribution of FA by citation index database, by language, and by acknowledgment type, we noted coverage limitations and potential biases in each analysis. We argue that despite its great value, bibliometric analysis of FA should be used with caution.

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Scholarly gratitude in five geographical contexts: a diachronic and cross-generic approach of the acknowledgment paratext in medical discourse (1950–2010)

Cited by 26 publications

References 45 publications

Acknowledgments in scientific publications: Presence in Spanish science and text patterns across disciplines

Acknowledgments in scientific publications: Presence in Spanish science and text patterns across disciplines

Approaching the “reward triangle”: General analysis of the presence of funding acknowledgments and “peer interactive communication” in scientific publications

Funding acknowledgment analysis: Queries and caveats

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