The Relationship Between Citation Frequency and Funding Project Support of Chinese Scholars'Papers
To explore the relationship between the citation frequency and funding project support,papers published by Chinese scholars in 2017 in journals included on the CSCD and SCI-E databases were selected.The power law distribution pattern of the citation frequency of the papers under different fund project funding conditions was analyzed.The citation frequency of funded papers is higher than that of non-funded papers as a whole,but the specific degree of enhancement is related to the research direction.There is no need for scholars to hang several fund projects after one paper,and there is no need for journals to over-pursuing the ratio of fund papers,both indicators do not show a positive correlation with the citation frequency.We should take an objective view of the role of funding projects,strengthen the research on journal evaluation,comprehensively evaluate the quality and influence of papers and journals,standardise the labelling of funding projects,make reasonable use of the ratio of funding papers,and adhere to the original intention of scientific and technological journals as publications.Due to the limitations of the model and data,the effect of funding projects on the zero-cited long-tail papers and the papers in the humanities has not yet been effectively revealed.
research fundingscientific and technical journalsratio of funded paperscitation frequencyCSCDSCI-Epower law