Open AccessChecks and Balances: Taking a Closer Look at Funding Acknowledgements Texts
Author(s) -
Adèle PaulHus,
Nadine Desrochers
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual conference of cais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-7589
DOI - 10.29173/cais1025
Subject(s) - acknowledgement , order (exchange) , scale (ratio) , political science , public relations , library science , computer science , economics , geography , finance , computer security , cartography
Since 2008, funding acknowledgements have been indexed by Web of Science, allowing for large-scale analyses of acknowledgements. The objective of this study is to qualitatively analyse the content of acknowledgements texts in order to contextualize quantitatively obtained trends in acknowledgement practices. The preliminary results show that funding-related uses are more prevalent than expected, since even seemingly non-funding-related terms are in fact linked to funding statements.