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1. Article2026Open Access

   Funding, authorship patterns, and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia’s full-scale war (2020–2023)(opens in a new tab)

   

   Hladchenko, Myroslava; Costas, Rodrigo

   Funded by European Commission

   This study explores the funding, authorship patterns, and citation impact of articles funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU). The analysis focuses on articles published in Scopus-indexed journals in 2020–2023. The study findings revealed that the share of articles funded by these agencies increased from 8.6% in 2020–2021 to 11.9% in 2022–2023. Foreign cofunding, international coauthorship, and foreign coaffiliations were consistently associated with higher citation impact. In 2022–2023, foreign coaffiliations had a positive effect on the citation impact of MESU-funded articles, with FNCI exceeding that of articles cofunded by MESU and foreign agencies. In 2020–2021, NASU-funded articles had only a modest advantage in citation impact over unfunded articles. In 2022–2023, this pattern changed, with unfunded articles slightly exceeding NASU-funded articles in overall citation impact. Among articles with foreign coaffiliations and international coauthorship, unfunded articles exhibited a citation advantage over NASU-funded articles, while the citation impact of articles with Ukrainian affiliations was broadly similar. These findings raise questions about the effectiveness of current research evaluation criteria and funding allocation mechanisms and underscore the need for evidence-based reform of Ukraine’s research funding system.

   DOI: 10.1162/qss.a.503CitationCitation impactChristian ministryUkrainianCitation analysis
2. Article2026

   Beyond institutional age and size: what drives innovation-related performance in Brazilian Federal Universities(opens in a new tab)

   

   Ferrero, Luciane Graziele Pereira; Salles Filho, Sérgio; Bin, Adriana; Cabral, Bernardo Pereira; Rezende, Marcos Candido de Paula

   Funded by FAPESP

   Universities contribute to innovation systems through scientific production, intellectual property protection, technology transfer, and academic–corporate collaboration. Innovation-related outputs depend on combinations of organizational, institutional, and research-related conditions rather than isolated variables. This article examines innovation-related performance in Brazilian federal universities using data from 69 institutions collected by the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General. The study analyzes intellectual property assets, technology transfer rate, and patent-cited scholarly output through descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, and fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). The findings show that academic–corporate collaboration is the most consistent condition associated with stronger innovation-related performance. Internal regulation enables intellectual property generation and technology transfer, while field-weighted citation impact is particularly relevant for patent-cited scholarly output. Institutional age is not a linear predictor of innovation-related performance, as younger universities appear prominently in normalized indicators. The article provides configurational evidence from a public higher education system in an emerging economy.

   DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scag069Intellectual propertyTechnology transferCitationHigher educationInstitutional analysis