Need funding data? Exploring Funding Data in Web of Science

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Rachel Mangan 30th September 2019

How does Web of Science obtain Funding data?

• Funding information from the source document. Web of Science Core Collection has been capturing funding information since 2008 in SCI-Expanded and since 2015 in SSCI.

• Funding data is now captured for all Citation Indexes (ESCI, AHCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SS, BKCI)

• In 2016, Web of Science began supplementing the grant information with grant agencies and grant numbers from researchfish®.

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Our carefully trained Indexers identify and index Funding

Sources from the Acknowledgements

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TWO NEW SOURCES ADDED IN 2016

• Over 1.5 M records have been enriched with such information

https://www.researchfish.net/ https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline.html

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Funding Data Search and Display Use Basic Search

1. Funding Agency 2. Grant Number

Use Advanced SearchFO= Funding AgencyFG= Grant Number

FT= Funding text

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How much WOS content provides Funding data?

By conducting a search in the FO field, over 13 million records are

identified for containing Funding data. This means 18% of WOS Core records

are powering Funding Sources discovery and analysis

Funding data for 13+M records

Why is WOS improving Funding Data?

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Improvement to Funding Data drives better analytics for better decisions

Our research intelligence tool ‘Incites Benchmark and Analytics’ uses Funding unification already. We decided to power Web of Science data with the same

unification to make WOS and Incites consistent environments for Funding discover and analysis.

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Funder Unification-behind the scenes

Our unification rules are applied behind the scenes to clean up variants and present a single unified funder name

• Web of Science has begun a program to enrich the funding agency. As the first step, Web of Science is exposing the

unified funding agency names so that users will be able to see the complete impact of research funded by an

organization regardless of which division of the organization provided the funding or how the author may have

abbreviated it in the text.

• This mapping of a funding agency to a preferred (or unified) funding name will occur as new content is processed

using a newly created algorithm.

• Enhancements will be visible in WOS Core Collection and WOS Core Collection records as accessed from All

Databases.

• Users will be able to identify the unified or preferred funding agency name when viewing the Full Record page.

Agencies that are mapped to a preferred funding agency name will be normalized and the additional parent

relationships added consistently.

NEW – September 20, 2019!

Unified Funding in Web of Science

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• The algorithm that assigns the preferred funding name was

developed based on the existing InCites funding agency unification.

Currently, we have approximately 1,100 preferred funder names that

appear in 1,913,081 WOS Core Collection records. The algorithm is

designed to precisely match the preferred names by mapping all

known variants to the preferred name

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Unified Funding in Web of Science

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• Funding agencies seeking to calculate the impact of the research they

have funded using these preferred names can use the refine or

analyze functions.

• Because refine and analyze highlight the values that have the highest

total number of records, the preferred names should float to the top.

• For the most comprehensive search results, users should also review

the remaining refine or analyze values to identify any variants

divisions/abbreviations/spellings for the most comprehensive results

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Unified Funding in Web of Science

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• Further enhancements to funding agency information under

consideration include an improved search experience and may

include an auto-complete search for Funding Agency which

recommends unified funding agency names or a one-click search

from the preferred funding agency name in the Full Record that

returns all records associated with that unified funding name.

Coming – September 20, 2019!

Unified Funding in Web of Science

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• Help File (http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS533JR18/help/WOS/hs_funding_agency.html)

• The complete list of unified funding agencies is accessible from the help file (http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS533JR18/help/WOS/hs_preferred_funding_agencies.html)

• We also welcome feedback to help refine and prioritize further enhancements – You can submit it

through the Data Corrections form using the “Funding/Grant Info” category (https://support.clarivate.com/ScientificandAcademicResearch/s/datachanges?language=en_US)

NEW – September 20, 2019!

Unified Funding in Web of Science

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The context – Plan S become effective in January 2021(https://www.coalition-s.org/)

Implications for the scholarly publishing landscape

This report, the second in the Global Research series from the Institute for Scientific Information, examines recent patterns of publications funded by Plan S supporters, exploring potential impacts on funders, subjects, countries, publishers, and journals.

Based on journal data taken from Web of Science Core Collection, the report looks to provide an unbiased and data-driven background analysis to inform the debate around a potentially transformative change in research policy. ‘The Plan S Footprint’ raises several questions for consideration by funders, publishers and institutions when exploring possible ways to implement Plan S.

You can download the ISI report here: https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/isi-reports/

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