Acknowledging the Difficulties: A Case Study of a Funding Text

Research on funding acknowledgments is in ascendance, with more data available and more studies done. Yet, there are specific challenges in accurately capturing this type of data. This blog post looks at a single publication's acknowledgment section in order to discuss several of these challenges.

Dan Gibson, Jeroen van Honk and Clara Calero-Medina • December 01, 2022

Vaccine development in context

CWTS' Leonie van Drooge has received the Moderna vaccine. She is not an army enthusiast, yet she is grateful to the US Dept. of Defense. Its agency DARPA funded Moderna in 2013 to further develop the then-novel mRNA technology. This blog looks into how DARPA does or doesn't solve challenges.

Leonie van Drooge • June 01, 2021

Could pre-Covid-19 research into coronaviruses have been otherwise? Episode one: Careers

Could coronavirus-related research (CRR) pre-Covid-19 have been otherwise? In this series we examine pre-pandemic publications in CRR, asking how issues of careers, funding, and geopolitics may have affected the state of knowledge in CRR. Ep.1: Careers.

Sarah Rose Bieszczad, Jochem Zuijderwijk and Thed van Leeuwen • July 07, 2020

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Acknowledging the Difficulties: A Case Study of a Funding Text

Vaccine development in context

Could pre-Covid-19 research into coronaviruses have been otherwise? Episode one: Careers