1This research was sponsored, in part, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), monitored by the Office of Naval Research under Contract NR049-041.

In this paper, we report results of an investigation into the factors influencing the selection of sponsored links by e-commerce Web searchers. In this research, 56 participants each engaged in six e-commerce Web searching tasks. We mined these tasks from the transaction log of a major Web search engine, so the tasks represent real e-commerce searching information needs. Using 60 organic and 30...

OBJECTIVE The literature continues to highlight the debate on the ethics and merits of trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. This study attempts to determine the prevalence and outcomes of industry-sponsored trials involving clozapine, risperidone, or olanzapine. METHODS We searched the literature from January 1, 1990, to December 31, 2001, to capture all eligible clinical trials i...

BACKGROUND Mapping the international landscape of clinical trials may inform global health research governance, but no large-scale data are available. Industry or non-industry sponsorship may have a major influence in this mapping. We aimed to map the global landscape of industry- and non-industry-sponsored clinical trials and its evolution over time. METHODS We analyzed clinical trials initi...

While sponsored posts by social media influencers (SMIs) on Instagram have dramatically increased as an advertising strategy, empirical results their efficiency yet to emerge. These are placed next nonsponsored (NSPs) SMIs’ profiles. In the current study, we investigate how consumers engage with compared NSPs and engagement varies when such posted microinfluencers macroinfluencers. Moreover, ex...

This study analyzes funding acknowledgments in scientific papers to investigate relationships between research sponsorship and publication impacts. We identify acknowledgments to research sponsors for nanotechnology papers published in the Web of Science during a one-year sample period. We examine the citations accrued by these papers and the journal impact factors of their publication titles. ...