1. What are Funding Acknowledgements and what are they good for?
1. What are Funding Acknowledgements and what are they good for?
Research funders increasingly expect scientific publications made possible by third-party funding to be labelled with standardised funding acknowledgements.
Unlike an informal acknowledgement in the foreword of a publication, for example, the use of a standardised funding acknowledgement officially documents the funding.
The funding acknowledgement also documents the eligibility of the research on which the publication is based. This is particularly important as bibliographic databases such as Web of Science incorporate existing funding acknowledgements into the publication metadata.
Funding acknowledgements support scientific reputation management, as the performance of researchers and institutions is also measured by their success in acquiring third-party funding.
In addition, funding acknowledgements are an important component of open science and important for monitoring publication costs at Freie Universität.
To ensure that a correct attribution of author, work, funding and university is possible, researchers are requested to provide their publications with clear affiliation information in accordance with the affiliation guidelines of Freie Universität Berlin.
