About the Funder Report
The InCites Funder Report was released in March 2024. The Funder Report is the newest overview report available in InCites. Overview reports are designed to provide structure and context for data by way of report tabs and filtering, which allow users to customize the fundamental parameters of the report.
The Funder Report is based on the Funding Agencies entity. The Funder Report provides value to funders, academic research offices, researchers, and publishers by measuring impact of funded works. Funding agencies can benchmark themselves against peers and quantify their impact within the scientific community and beyond. InCites leverages unified funding acknowledgment data from the Web of Science with data provided directly by funding agencies, and provides a tool to explore the data with an eye to benchmarking and citation impact analysis.
By default, the analyses in the Funder Report are filtered as follows:
- Funding Output Type: Funded
- Funding Data Source: All Sources
Users can filter the report by funding agency and date range. The report includes 5 tabs:
- Funder Profile
- Funder Impact
- Open Access
- Most Cited Documents
- Organizational Funding Impact Profile
To view or edit the analysis for a specific tile, click ‘View Data’ or open the menu in the tile and select ‘Go to Analysis.’ This will open the analysis in the table view.
Report Tabs
Funder Profile
The Funder Profile provides an overview of a specific funding agency. Tiles in this report include:
- Number of documents funded by the funding agency
- Times Cites for those documents
- Documents funded by the funding agency published per year
- Citations per year for funded documents
Funder Impact
The Funder Impact tab provides an overview of impact based on funded documents as well as a profile of the funded documents. Tiles in the report include:
- Number of documents funded by the funding agency
- Times Cites
- % Documents Cited
- Average CNCI for funded documents
- % Highly Cited
- Citations from patents
- Funded documents published by citation topics (both macro and meso)
- Citation impact (CNCI) by citation topic (both macro and meso)
- Funded documents by JIF Quartile
Open Access
The Open Access tab provides an overview of funded documents that are open access. The Overview includes open access counts by open access type (e.g., gold, green, etc.). The report also includes tiles for:
- Number of all open access documents by year
- Overall citation impact (CNCI) of all funded open access documents by year
- Number of gold open access documents by year
- Overall citation impact (CNCI) of gold funded open access documents by year
- Citation impact (CNCI) of gold open access documents by citation topic (both macro and meso)
Most Cited Documents
The Most Cited Documents tab provides a list of the most highly cited documents funded by the funding agency.
Organization Funding Impact Profile
In the Organization Funding Impact Profile, users can filter by both funding agency and organization, as well as date range. This allows users to view the impact of documents associated with an organization and funded by a specific funding agency. For example, if filtered by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and Harvard University the report would show data for documents funded by NIH on which there is an author affiliated with Harvard University.
The tiles in the Organization Funding Impact Profile include:
- Number of documents funded by the funding agency affiliated with the organization
- Citation impact (CNCI) for funded documents affiliated with the organization
- Organization’s Share of Funded Output
- This tile shows what percent of documents funded by the funding agency were published by the selected academic organization. For example,10% of documented funded by NIH were published by Harvard University.
- Organization’s Share of Citations
- The base of this analysis is the total Times Cited for documents funded by the funding agency. The analysis shows what percent of those citations were to documents published by the selected academic organization. For example, 17% of citations to documented funded by NIH were to documents published by Harvard University.
Forthcoming Updates to the Funder Report
In January 2024, Clarivate released a new collection, the Grants Index, on the Web of Science platform. This new collection includes 5.2M awarded grant records from over 400 funding agencies in more than 15 countries. The Grants Index is fully integrated on the Web of Science platform, allowing users to search the collection and navigate seamlessly between the grant records and publications that are associated with an awarded grant.
In late 2024 the Grants Index data will be available in InCites and reflected in the Funder Report. The benefit of the additional Grant Index data is that it will allow for more comprehensive reporting of funder activity as it will now include funding data regardless of whether it is linked to a document in the Web of Science. This will expand data already in the report, such as the number of grants from a specific agency. It will also add new tiles to the report such as total amount of funding from a funding agency.