Acknowledgement of funders in journal articles
This guidance is aimed at authors, research funders, publishers and readers to ensure that funders are acknowledged in a standardised way in journal articles.
Most of the major research funders in the UK have included in their terms and conditions of award a requirement for researchers to acknowledge in any publication the support received from the funder in question. But previously, there has been no standard wording, or guidance on the form the acknowledgement should take. This makes it difficult for funders to find which publications have arisen from projects they have funded.
This guidance has been drawn up in partnership with major research funders and publishers, whose endorsement it acknowledges.
The guidance and a summary are available below, with a list of major UK research funders’ corrrect titles.
Hard copies of the short summary are available on request, email contact@rin.ac.uk
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Anonymous said on 06 December 2011 at 6:48pm:
I have been looking for content like this for a research project I am working on. Thanks very much.
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Anonymous said on 22 October 2011 at 9:40am:
Re the previous comment - as long as grant number is given alongside funder name then the funders records of academic names are goot enough to resolve which author relates to which acknowledged grant. The RIN agreement was signed with Publishers in January 2008 - its disappointing that so little attention has been paid to it.
Anonymous said on 14 October 2011 at 8:44am:
It is helpful to have some standard wording as a template, but authors do need the flexibility to take account of individual circumstances. For example, the proposed exact wording is not really appropriate for joint publications where one author’s contribution to the project has been funded by the body in question and another not.
Anonymous said on 07 June 2011 at 8:33am:
> all published research articles should include a funding acknowledgement in the following form:
> This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxx].>
Oh come on, is there only one Medical Research Council in the world? This is as bad as various US refereeing forms which ask how the research will benefit *the* nation? [There’s only one true nation now of course].
The correct wording should be
> This work was supported by the (UK) Medical Research Council [grant number xxx]
or similar.
Anonymous said on 22 April 2011 at 9:58am:
The majority of the major study funders within the United kingdom possess for long contained in their conditions and terms associated with award essential for scientists in order to acknowledge in a book the support received from the funder under consideration. However there’s been up to now absolutely no standard wording, or even assistance with the form the acknowledgement ought to consider. Therefore it is tough for funders in order to discoverwhat publications have come to light from tasks they’ve funded; and for marketers to provide acknowledgements in a constant method.
Anonymous said on 27 January 2011 at 1:50pm:
A standardized document that explains exactly what research funders expect from the publification of research that they have funded will definitely clear up the issues that many researchers have run into in previous years. However, will these documents be different for different sectors or will the document be written in a sector specific way? I recently read the GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS FOR SCHOOL OF ALLIED HEALTH FUNDING SHORT TERM MEDICAL report that was written for 2010. Of course the standards for this group may very well be different than the standards for BESA, CASRAI or CER. In October the NIMH (National Intitute for Mental Health) funded 17 different research groups to continue work on stem cell research. With this degree of funding a standard document would help insure that the NIMH would get the nod that they deserve for their part in any breakthrough that these groups may have. In any case it is good to see progress being made in regards to publication citation and acknowledgements.
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