Funding ratios in social science: the perspective of countries/territories level and comparison with natural sciences

Xin Xu, Alice M. Tan and Star X. Zhao ()
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Xin Xu: East China Normal University
Alice M. Tan: Zhejiang University
Star X. Zhao: East China Normal University

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 104, issue 3, No 4, 673-684

Abstract: Abstract Research funding plays a key role in current science, thus it has become an aggregative interesting level in scientometric analysis. In this work, we try to explore the funding ratios of 21 major countries/territories in social science based on 813,809 research articles collected from the Web of Science and indexed by the Social Sciences Citation Index covering the period from 2009 to 2013. The results show that the funding ratios of sample countries/territories in social science are far below that in natural science and some specific subjects (chemistry, engineering, physics, neurosciences). However, there is a positive correlation between them. The funding ratios of People’s Republic of China, Sweden and Japan rank the top 3 (over 30 %). Generally, the funding ratios of the top 1 % and top 10 % highly cited articles are higher than those of the rest of articles, and for most cases, the high funding ratio of all articles is related to the high funding ratio of the highly cited articles.

Keywords: Funding ratio; Science funds; Citation analysis; Bibliometrics; Scientometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1633-3

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