CrossRef Annual Meeting14 November 2012

Kevin DolbyEvaluation AdviserWellcome Trust

Set up in 1936 under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome.

Our vision is to achieve extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.

Our mission is to support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities.

We spend approximately £650 million on research per year.

The Wellcome Trust

• Government and other research funders are

accountable for reporting the research and

development outcomes they support.

• One measure of this output is the publications that

result from specific grants or other financial support.

• Funders do not currently have an easy or standard way

to track publications that result from their funding.

• A combined solution for all funders eliminates the need

for each to design its own solution to the problem.

Why is FundRef necessary?

Grant funding schemes

Investigator Awards:support for outstanding established researchers

Fellowships:

personal support for researchers throughout their career

Strategic Awards:large-scale, collaborative, multidisciplinary projects

Translational Awards

Medical Humanities & Public Engagement

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Impact profile of Wellcome Trust-associated publications 2006 - 2011

Source: Data drawn from Thomson Reuters Web of KnowledgeSM; Analysis by Thomson Reuters

Base: 122, 442 UK Biological sciences papers; 26,736 WT papers; 1196 PRF papers. Note: PRFs as of September 2012

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

Funding acknowledgements - the problem

http://rinarchive.jisc-collections.ac.uk/our-work/research-funding-policy-and-guidance/acknowledgement-funders-journal-articles

The Guidance has been endorsed by the Research Councils, the Wellcome Trust, and the

Association of Medical Research Charities, as well as by the Publishers Association and the

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.

'This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust

[grant number], [grant number]; Cancer Research UK

[grant number]; another funder [grant number]; etc.'

the solution?

• For 2011, 5080 papers on PubMed are indexed as

being Wellcome Trust funded

• 43% fail to include a grant number

• How many more are we missing?

Problems remain

http://www.crossref.org/fundref/index.html

CrossRef Annual Meeting14 November 2012