Cite the Grant

Citation Guidance

When Are You Required to Cite the CTSA grant?

• When the research was directly funded by CTSI: pilot projects awards, tech development grants, Community-Engaged Scholar Program awards, Research Nexus subsidy awards, KL2, TL1 support
• When the research benefited from CTSI-funded faculty or staff
• When the research relied on CTSI services, resources, facilities, tools or consults such as: CTSI Voucher Award, research navigation, biostatistics, informatics, regulatory support, recruitment and retention support (ResearchMatch, StudySearch, Facebook Ads, etc.), study coordination, technology consults, study design, community engagement and special populations consults
• Resources: toolkits, training workshops, courses, seminars
• Informatics Tools: REDCap, clinical data warehouse, Scarlet, LifeScale

Please consider citing the CTSA grant for these situations:

1. When CTSA involvement is less direct, the decision to cite the CTSA grant in papers is at the discretion of the senior author. Given the importance of publications to demonstrating the transformative power of the CTSI, we ask that you consider citing the CTSA
2. CTSI involvement that qualifies for citing the CTSA:
   1. Technical assistance, such as statistical assistance, helped accomplish a portion of the research, but the personnel were only partially funded by the CTSA; If the technical expertise played an important role, then citation of the CTSA may be appropriate.
   2. Faculty with partial FTE from the CTSA grant should consider whether their CTSA funding provided some support for a research project which would qualify for CTSA grant citation.
   3. Other assistance from CTSI personnel may have been important to the research in question; CTSI faculty and staff are often involved in initiating and supporting collaborative research, coordinating critical meetings of collaborators and stimulation of novel ideas; These activities should be considered for citation of the CTSA grant.