The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the implementation of unified research funders on InCites Benchmarking. This was the first outcome of the 2015 collaboration agreement with the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to standardise definitions of research funding organisations by analysing and updating funders' acknowledgements within the Web of Science.
In order to effectively evaluate a university or organisation's research outputs, it is critical to understand how funding for their projects were acquired and distributed through an analysis of funding acknowledgements. As part of its 'Science for RE-designing Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciREX),' NISTEP has conducted a name-based aggregation of Japanese research funding organisations appearing in scholarly paper acknowledgements within the Web of Science. This joint analysis examines how to conduct, verify and sustainably update name-based aggregation of funding acknowledgement data within a research publication at an organisational and institutional level.
The first outcome of this project delivered unified funding name acknowledgements within InCites Benchmarking. This followed an assessment of a name based aggregation of Japanese research funding organisations, Web of Science. The joint analysis will be continued and applied to unify other Japanese research funding organisations, and implemented to Web of Science Core Collection in the future. The creation of unified names and definitions for funding organisations will continue to improve analytical linkages between funding resource and research outcomes.
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