Title
The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact
Abstract
AbstractA 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/asi.24109
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Actuarial science,Information retrieval,Citation impact,Computer science,Scopus,Negative binomial distribution,Government
Journal
70
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2330-1635
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loet Leydesdorff14987381.86
lutz bornmann23124279.75
Caroline S. Wagner340926.07