How Corporate Money Corrupts Science

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Methodology & Verification

All data comes from OpenAlex, a free and open index of 260M+ scholarly works.

OpenAlex contains over 260 million scholarly works, but only ~3% include structured funding information.

Every paper referenced in this investigation links directly to its OpenAlex record for independent verification.

Corporate funder identification uses keyword matching against company names, legal suffixes (Inc., Corp., Ltd., GmbH), and known industry entities.

Data source: OpenAlex snapshot February 2026. 7,817,613 funded papers analyzed out of 260M+ total works.