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Adding grants to papers

In our July "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks:

Suppose I have a grant starting, say, today. Suppose I have a paper at its final stage before publication. Should I add the grant to the paper (assuming the paper topic is aligned with the grant topic)? I have no idea what the answer is… Please chime in!

To add, I also have no idea whether the grant info needs to appear in a minimal number of papers.

I've never had a grant like this (only internal grants for particular projects), so I don't know the answer. Anyone with experience with grants have any insight?

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3 responses to “Adding grants to papers”

  1. Laurence Bernard McCullough

    Grant support for research that resulted in the paper must be cited, following journal format for doing so. Based on description above, the new grant could not be construed as supporting research that resulted in paper in final stages before publication.

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  2. J

    My understanding is that one should acknowledge the grant / funding body if one did substantive work during the grant period (which may include initial research, conferences, talks, but also substantive editing and revision). But if you have multiple successive grants as you work on multiple things (fairly common European postdoc experience), you probably have some degree of freedom in deciding who to acknowledge in which papers.

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  3. Jonathan Ichikawa

    I would add it if the grant helped in any way, including small ways. (I sometimes use grants to hire students to help with copy-editing, for example.)
    I don’t see any downside to erring on the side of acknowledging in such cases.

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