Is funding related to higher research impact? Exploring its relationship and the mediating role of collaboration in several disciplines
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Highlights：
• Funded research is published in more prestigious journals and attains higher citation rates than the non-funded one.
• Funded research is associated to greater team size but not always to greater extra-mural collaboration.
• Funding shows direct and indirect effects on the citation rate of papers.
• Indirect effects of funding include the publication of more complete papers, in more prestigious journals and with wider collaboration.
• Mediators between funding and research impact differ according to the disciplines.
摘要
•Funded research is published in more prestigious journals and attains higher citation rates than the non-funded one.•Funded research is associated to greater team size but not always to greater extra-mural collaboration.•Funding shows direct and indirect effects on the citation rate of papers.•Indirect effects of funding include the publication of more complete papers, in more prestigious journals and with wider collaboration.•Mediators between funding and research impact differ according to the disciplines.
论文关键词：Research funding,Scientific collaboration,Research impact,Funding acknowledgments,Mediation analysis
论文评审过程：Received 5 March 2020, Revised 28 September 2020, Accepted 30 September 2020, Available online 28 November 2020, Version of Record 28 November 2020.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101102
