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Who gets acknowledged: measuring scientific contributions through automatic acknowledgment indexing.

C Lee Giles1, Isaac G Councill

  • 1School of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, 311 IST Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. giles@ist.psu.edu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|December 17, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Research acknowledgements, like citations, highlight contributions. Analyzing acknowledgements alongside citations offers a new metric for evaluating scientific impact and funding efficacy.

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Area of Science:

  • Bibliometrics
  • Scholarly Communication
  • Research Evaluation

Background:

  • Citations formally denote scientific influence and debt.
  • Acknowledgements offer personal appreciation and recognition of contributions.
  • Funding bodies often require acknowledgment of support in publications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose acknowledgements as a parallel metric to citations for academic evaluation.
  • To develop automated methods for analyzing acknowledgements.
  • To demonstrate the combined impact of citation and acknowledgement analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Automated extraction of acknowledgement text from research publications.
  • Analysis of extracted acknowledgements to identify patterns and contributions.

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  • Integration of acknowledgement data with citation indexing for comprehensive analysis.

    • Main Results:

    • Acknowledgements provide a distinct yet complementary perspective to citations.
    • Automated analysis enables scalable and objective assessment of acknowledgements.
    • Combined analysis reveals measurable impacts of individuals and sponsors.

    Conclusions:

    • Acknowledgements represent a valuable, underutilized data source for research assessment.
    • Automated acknowledgement analysis enhances traditional bibliometric methods.
    • This approach offers a more holistic view of scientific contributions and support networks.