The Influence of Funding on the Scientific Impact of Research: The Case of Iranian International Papers and Citations

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Instructor, Science & Technology Research Group, Islamic World Sci-ence Citation center, Shiraz, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, RICEST. Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate effect of research funding on the number of received citations and to find any difference based on the type of funders including national and international ones. It also examines the distribution of papers in journals with different degrees of quality in term of impact factors.
Methodology: The paper uses a random sample of Iranian papers in Web of Science published during 2013-2015. This includes about 26000 papers divided into funded and non-funded groups.
Findings: On average, funded research received more citations compared to non-funded ones; however, this results varies according to the finders or the field of the papers. Financially supported by international funders or simultaneously by national and international funders receive more citations than those research funded by only national funders, while the formers research also get published in the more prestigious journals.
Conclusion: All funded research do not receive the same number of citations. It is recommended to consider this indicator with the number of received citations to have more qualified measure of research performance.

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