Table 5 The 15 most productive agencies funding forest ecology research indexed by the web of science during 2002–2011
From: A bibliometric analysis of global forest ecology research during 2002–2011
Funding agencies | Articles number | Ratio (%) | Countries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | National Science Foundation | 2240 | 2.84 | USA |
2 | National Natural Science Foundation of China | 831 | 1.05 | China |
3 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | 807 | 1.02 | Canada |
4 | CNPq | 744 | 0.94 | Brazil |
5 | European Union | 601 | 0.76 | EU |
6 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 372 | 0.47 | China |
7 | NASA | 357 | 0.45 | USA |
8 | European Commission | 337 | 0.43 | EC |
9 | Academy of Finland | 311 | 0.39 | Finland |
10 | Australian Research Council | 265 | 0.34 | Australia |
11 | CAPES | 221 | 0.28 | Brazil |
12 | National Basic Research Program of China | 196 | 0.25 | China |
13 | FAPESP | 192 | 0.24 | Brazil |
14 | Russian Foundation for Basic Research | 185 | 0.23 | Russia |
15 | USDA Forest Service | 172 | 0.22 | USA |