Linking Global Science Funding to Research Publications

The dataset provides a disambiguated list of science funders constructed by matching funder name strings from publication acknowledgments to standardized institutional identifiers. From an initial set of 7.4 million unique funder strings, we identify at least one potential match for 1.9 million strings, covering approximately 72% of all funder mention instances in the Web of Science Core Collection and Emerging Sources Citation Index 2023 snapshot. The resulting dataset links raw acknowledgment text to standardized funder entities, enabling large-scale analyses of research funding landscapes across sectors, organizations, and scientific fields. Additional details on the data construction process, matching procedures, and validation are described in the accompanying manuscript. You can find the preprint at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.24147. Note: The underlying Web of Science records are proprietary and cannot be redistributed due to licensing restrictions. The shared dataset contains only funder name strings, aggregated counts, and matched organizational identifiers and does not include any bibliographic metadata that would allow reconstruction of the original database.