The Availability and completeness of funder metadata in Crossref: A case study for publications funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO

Research funders spend considerable efforts on collecting information about the outcomes of the research they fund. Publications are amongst important data they collect because these represent direct results of research funding. To help funders track publication output associated with their funding, Crossref initiated the Fundref project in 2013, enabling publishers to deposit funding information using persistent identifiers. Currently, 25% of articles published in 2021 have funder metadata. However, it is hard to assess that figure because it is not known how many articles are the result of f... Mehr ...