The importance of funding acknowledgments data standardization in metric studies of non-authorial forms of research collaboration
an analysis of journals indexed in SciELO
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https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v16.n2.2023.43976Keywords:
Terminological variability, Data standardization, Brazilian science, SciELO, Research FundingAbstract
Mentions to funders in papers acknowledgments are made in a non-standardized way, which hampers the count of this non-authorial form of research collaboration. By means of bibliometric indicators, the paper analyses the terminological variability of acknowledged funders names in papers published in two journals indexed in SciELO, one from Biological Sciences and other from Human Sciences. Both in Acta Botanica Brasilica and in Revista de Sociologia e Política papers, the main ministerial agencies (CAPES and CNPq) and two of the main acknowledged research support foundations (FAPEMIG and FAPESP) present multiple terminological variants. It concludes that the funding in science is an activity that generates data, potentially relevant to elaborate reliable and sustainable metrics of non-authorial forms of research collaboration, as long as they are standardized.
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