Revisiting bibliometric issues using new empirical data

Using research funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council o f Australia, the classification of the grant that funded the! research whic h led to the publication was contrasted with the use of a common proxy, jou rnal set classification. Frequently, the two measures produce very similar results but major differences can occur. Acknowledgments data appear to acc urately reflect a funding body's total research output, but lack the abilit y to identify, individual funding schemes within such bodies. In contrast t o the output funded by long-term grants, publications from research funded on a limited, three-year cycle exhibit a very fast publication turn-around - considerably faster than the often-quoted four years. The accuracy with w hich researchers report links between publications and the grants from whic h they emanate is examined.