Funding Covid-19 research: Insights from an open data infrastructure

"How was this new research on Covid-19 and earlier related research funded?  In a recent paper, we sought to understand the extent to which open data infrastructures - specifically Crossref data - can help answer this question.... We used the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), “a comprehensive collection of publications and preprints on COVID-19 and related historical coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS”, to operationalize Covid-19 and related research.   Our main objective was to explore the extent to which Crossref funding information can help in identifying the funding organizations behind the papers in CORD-19 and how this compares to the data from two established proprietary bibliometric databases: Scopus and Web of Science...."