General laws of funding for scientific citations: how citations change in funded and unfunded research between basic and applied sciences

Abstract

The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between funded and unfunded papers and their citations in both basic and applied sciences.

Keywords

• research funding
• citations
• scientific development
• science diffusion
• scientific laws
• power law model
• matthew effect
• science policy
• research policy
• science of science
• dynamics of science
• evolution of science