Most UK scientists who publish extremely highly-cited papers do not secure funding from major public and charity funders: A descriptive analysis

• Charitini Stavropoulou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: C.Stavropoulou@city.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4307-1848

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• Melek Somai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2692-9681

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• John P. A. Ioannidis

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Science, Stanford, CA, United States of America, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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