Research Analytics: Affiliation Statement Recommendations

Ensuring that you have the correct affiliation on all of your research outputs is important for several reasons:

1. Credibility and Recognition: Affiliations provide context about your institutional background, adding credibility to your research.
2. Accountability and Transparency: Clear affiliations ensure accountability by linking researchers to their institutions.
3. Collaboration and Networking: Affiliations can highlight collaborations between institutions and help track co-authorships.
4. Funding and Resources: Affiliations help track funding.
5. University Rankings: Affiliations statements are used to identify an institution's research output and consequently inform university rankings.

Using a standardised format for your affiliation statement helps improve data quality and ensures that your output is correctly attributed to the appropriate institution.

We recommend that The University of Bath should always be the first element of the affiliation statement. Other organisational groups, such as departments or research centres, should follow if there is sufficient space. If a journal's style guide does not allow the University to be the first element, it should still be included and never omitted. If there is a character limit for an affiliation statement, The University of Bath should always be prioritised over sub-elements.

The University of Bath should always be referred to as "The University of Bath," never "Bath University."

1. [Researcher Name], University of Bath, [Department], Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
2. [Researcher Name], University of Bath, [Department], [Faculty], Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
3. [Researcher Name], University of Bath, [Research Centre], [Department], Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

If you have two or more affiliations please use the affiliation or affiliations in which the research was completed or supported. If only one affiliation is allowed please use the one where the main body of research was done.

[Researcher Name]^a,b,c 
a University of Bath, [Department], Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
^bRoyal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
^cMRI Consulting Ltd, Locksbrook Road, Bath, BA1 2DP

These recommendations are under development. We welcome feedback and questions. 

These guidelines have been informed by the Institutional Affiliation policy of King's College London and the Institutional Affiliation Policy of Durham University.

Find recommended statements for acknowledging funders here.