TOKYO -The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, 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 standardize definitions of research funding organizations by analyzing and updating funders' acknowledgements within the Web of Science.

In order to effectively evaluate a university or organization'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 organizations 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 organizational 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 organizations, Web of Science. The joint analysis will be continued and applied to unify other Japanese research funding organizations, and implemented to Web of Science Core Collection in the future. The creation of unified names and definitions for funding organizations will continue to improve analytical linkages between funding resource and research outcomes.

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For more details, please refer to http://www.nistep.go.jp.

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