Funding acknowledgements identify scientific publications that were made possible by third-party funding or were produced as part of third-party funded projects. They document the eligibility of funding of the research on which the publication is based and at the same time express gratitude for the funding. They are now often obligatory and standardised funding information and part of the bibliographic metadata of a publication. This means that this information can also be analysed in bibliographic databases such as Scopus.
To ensure that publications and funding can be correctly matched, clear affiliation information must always be available in addition to the funding acknowledgements. There are recommendations for members of 91²Ö¿â Bergakademie Freiberg in the .
Regulations of the DFG
The regulate the insertion of funding acknowledgements; the respective project participants themselves are responsible for inserting them in publications. A reference to DFG funding should be included in the following form:
- "Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer(n)"
In foreign-language publications, the reference should be in English:
- "funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project number(s)"
The project number can be found in the approval letter or in the . If you cannot find it, please contact funding-acknowledgements [at] dfg [dot] de (funding-acknowledgements[at]dfg[dot]de)
with the project title, applicant and funding period.
In addition, the DFG published its own information page on the topic in summer 2025, where funding recipients can find more detailed information.
