About: Acknowledgment index

An acknowledgement index (British English spelling) or acknowledgment index (American English spelling) is a scientometric index which analyzes acknowledgements in scientific literature and attempts to quantify their impact. Typically, a scholarly article has a section in which 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, an acknowledgement index 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 the impact factor, it does not produce a single overall metric, but analyses the components separately.