An acknowledgment index is an experimental method for analyzing the scientific literature; it quantifies the acknowledgments in scientific journals. Typically, such an article has a section where the authors acknowledge funding, technical staff, and colleagues that have contributed materials or knowledge. Like the citation index it measures influences on scientific work, but in a different sense; it measures institutional and economic influences as well as informal influences of individual people. Unlike impact factor, it does not produce a single overall metric, but analyses the components separately.

References

• Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee Giles, Hui Han, and Eren Manavoglu. Automatic Acknowledgment Indexing: Expanding the Semantics of Contribution in the CiteSeer Digital Library In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2005). ACM Press, New York, NY, 19–26. ISBN 1-59593-163-5.
• C. Lee Giles and Isaac G. Councill. Who gets acknowledged: Measuring scientific contributions through automatic acknowledgment indexing In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(51):17599–17604,[21 December 2004. ISSN 0027-8424.

See also

• Citation index
• Citation impact
• CiteSeer