Cite the Grant
Cite the Grant
CTSI’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) provides essential infrastructure, resources and services that support clinical and translational research at The Ohio State University, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and across Ohio.
Publications that cite an Ohio State CTSA grant are used to demonstrate the impact of CTSA-supported research and are reviewed as part of ongoing NIH reporting and funding activities. Failure to comply with NIH public access requirements can create challenges for both individual investigators and the broader CTSA program.
To help determine whether a CTSA grant should be cited or whether CTSI support should simply be acknowledged, review the decision tree below before submitting your manuscript.
Why Citation Matters
Citing an Ohio State CTSA grant indicates that federally funded CTSA resources directly contributed to the work. When a CTSA grant is cited in a publication, the publication becomes subject to NIH Public Access Policy requirements.
Authors are responsible for:
- NIH Public Access Policy: You are responsible for ensuring the article is compliant with NIH rules.
- No Embargo: For articles accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025, NIH requires immediate open access.
- Immediate Availability: The article must be available in PubMed Central on the Official Date of Publication.
- Author Oversight: Authors must confirm the compliance pathway before submission and monitor the deposit process until complete.
Author Responsibility
The author is ultimately responsible for ensuring compliance with NIH public access requirements. Because authors have the formal publication agreement with the journal, they are responsible for confirming the appropriate compliance pathway and ensuring all submission and deposit requirements are met.
The Ohio State CTSA team is available to provide guidance and resources, but compliance obligations remain with the authors and investigators responsible for the publication.
When to Cite an Ohio State CTSA Grant
Cite an Ohio State CTSA award only when the specific award directly supported the work being reported.
In general, a CTSA award should be cited if:
- You received a Pilot, CTS-AI, Predoctoral T32, Postdoctoral T32, Path to K or K12 award from the CTSI that supported the work
When Not to Cite an Ohio State CTSA Grant
An Ohio State CTSA award generally should not be cited if:
- The only involvement was a routine service, consultation or access to a shared resource
- The reported work was funded entirely by another funding source
- A CTSA-affiliated author contributed to the work in a capacity unrelated to CTSA-supported activities
- CTSA involvement is being acknowledged for transparency or courtesy, but the award did not directly support the reported research
Award Numbers to Cite
CTSA Award: UM1TR004548
Predoctoral T32 Award: T32TR004543
Postdoctoral T32 Award: T32TR005761
K12 Award: K12TR004546
“This publication [or project] was supported, in part, by The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Grant Number UM1TR004548. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”
NIH Public Access Policy
Investigators are required to acknowledge federal funding on research publications, press releases, requests for proposals, bid invitations and other documents supported in whole or in part with NIH funds. Authors are required to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy, which includes submission, upon acceptance for publication, of an electronic version of the final, peer-reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central. The NIH will not acknowledge any publications not in compliance with this policy and may withhold funding on grants not in compliance. Compliance is monitored via a PubMed Central ID (PMCID), which must be included in bibliography listings of these publications.
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Author Affiliation Guidelines
Faculty and staff at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are inconsistent in their approach to author affiliations when submitting publications. This impacts how the medical center and its entities are represented in various bibliometric data. These data are important when tracking author or researcher output and impact and are key in decisions related to promotion and tenure, as well as securing external funding.
To address this inconsistency and to improve bibliometric results, the medical center is implementing a new author affiliation structure for publications. In general, the author’s affiliation structure will be written as follows if working with the CTSI:
Division of ______, Department of ______, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA