Acknowledgement and Affiliation

Using Funding Acknowledgements Correctly

Financial support for research projects (research funding) and the resulting publications by funding agencies (publication funding) is indicated by means of standardised funding acknowledgements.

The funding acknowledgement documents the eligibility for funding of the research on which the publication is based. This is particularly important because bibliographic databases such as Web of Science incorporate existing funding information into the publication metadata. In addition, funding acknowledgements support scientific reputation management, as the performance of researchers and institutions is also measured by their success in attracting third-party funding. Funding acknowledgements are increasingly becoming an important part of open science and are important for monitoring publication costs at the University of Greifswald.

For publications resulting from DFG-funding, the DFG project number must be mentioned in the funding acknowledgment (the amount of DFG-funding for our OA publication fund depends on this).

Please mention in every publication funded through the publication fund that you have received such funding from the UG: “Support for the publication fee was provided by University of Greifswald's publication fund.”

Please note the DFG's guidelines on funding acknowledgements.

Projektergebnisse, die aus mit DFG-Mitteln finanzierten Projekten resultieren, müssen laut den einen Hinweis auf die DFG-Förderung in folgender Form enthalten:

According to the guidelines (German) for the use of funds, project results emerging from projects funded by the DFG must include a reference to DFG funding in the following form:
“Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – [project number(s)]”

beziehungsweise auf Englisch:
“Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – [project number(s)]”

The project number can be found in the letter of approval or in the GEPRIS project information system. If a publication is based on several DFG projects, all project numbers involved must be indicated and separated by semicolons.

Please do not include the internal reference number (letter-number combination based on your last name).

European Union

Requirements regarding funding acknowledgements also apply to projects funded by the European Union (EU). The EU requirements apply to all measures relating to the dissemination and communication of the funded project, as well as to infrastructure established, equipment purchased, and results published within the framework of the project.

The use of a notice expressing the extent of EU funding is mandatory:
For full EU funding: “Funded by the European Union”
For partial EU funding: “Co-funded by the European Union”

An EU emblem must also be placed to the left of the text – suitable templates can be found on the EU website.

Correctly Stating Your Affiliation

Similar to the funding acknowledgement, the correct indication of one's affiliation contributes to the traceability of research activities, transparent monitoring and open science. It is therefore important that members of the University of Greifswald and the University Medicine Greifswald provide correct affiliation details and indicate their affiliation to the relevant institution in a specified, uniform format. The University of Greifswald's affiliation guidelines regulate a standardised format for stating affiliation.

Fictitious publication with exemplary affiliation:

Journal of Baltic Sea Research, Volume 23, Issue 4
Baltic Sea Region Research at the University of Greifswald
Jonas Grip¹, Hanna Wold¹, Svenja Ryck¹, Jürgen Martensberg¹, Walther Koos¹*
^{1 University of Greifswald, Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO), 17487 Greifswald, Germany}
*Corresponding Author

Organisational Identifiers

Individual publishers use standardised identifiers for institutions in the submission process. In case of doubt, researchers should provide the publisher with the required identifier for their unique affiliation with the University of Greifswald or University Medicine Greifswald.

For the University of Greifswald
the following identifiers are used in particular:

Crossref Funder ID: 501100018934
ROR: 00r1edq15
ISNI: 0000 0001 2353 1531
Wikidata: Q165528
Ringgold: 26552
VIAF: 135065929
GND: 1168504872

For the University Medicine Greifswald
the following identifiers are used in particular:

ROR: 025vngs54
ISNI: 000000091168976
Wikidata: Q2496421
Ringgold: 60634
VIAF: 133323095
GND: 16329317-X

Open Access Team
University Library Greifswald

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Telephone +49 3834 420 1531
openaccess@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Guidelines

The affiliation policy, which regulates the standardised indication of affiliation with the University of Greifswald or University Medicine Greifswald in scientific publications, can be found here.