Analysis of the impact of NSFC funding on the output of high-level scientific research papers in provincial medical colleges based on InCitesTM perspective

ObjectiveTo analyze the influence of National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC) funding on the output of high-level scientific research papers and academic influence indicators of provincial medical colleges, and provide the reference for relevant universities to further improve the output of high-level research papers and level of academic influence.

MethodsThe A, B, C, D, E and F provincial medical colleges were selected as the research objects.With the help of the new generation InCites TM platform, A quantitative analysis was conducted on the high-level scientific research papers funded by NSFC from 2011 to 2020.The academic influence of high-level scientific research papers funded by NSFC were analyzed using the number of papers included in Web of Science, citation frequency, citation percentage, H index, citation influence, percentage of papers with top 1%(10%) citation times, highly cited papers and standardized citation influence of disciplines.

ResultsThere was a significant gap in the number of high-level research papers funded by NSFC in the six sample universities, and the gap was consistent with the number of NSFC funded projects.The ranking of the number of papers in WOS was basically consistent with the ranking of the output of high-level research papers funded by NSFC.The total number of papers in top three universities funded by NSFC accounted for more than 50% of total number of papers included in WOS.The differences of the influence indexes of high-level research papers between funded by NSFC and non-NSFC were statistically significant among 6 sample universities(P < 0.01).

ConclusionsNSFC funding can significantly improve the output and academic influence of high level scientific research papers in provincial medical colleges.