Acknowledgment indexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

An acknowledgment index is a method for indexing and analyzing the scientific literature and, thus, quantifies the impact of acknowledgments. Typically, a scholarly article has a section where the authors acknowledge entities such as funding, technical staff, colleagues, etc. that have contributed materials or knowledge or have influenced or inspired their work. Like a 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, ideas, and artifacts. Unlike impact factor, it does not produce a single overall metric, but analyses the components separately.