Marking 10 years since the 2007 founding of the European Research Council (ERC), a report from Clarivate Analytics assesses the output and impact of research funded by the agency. Examination of published papers, as well as patents, demonstrates the strength of ERC-supported research – for example, in its increasing production of highly cited papers. By the general measure of normalized citation impact, which controls for different subject fields and years of publication, the ERC registers the highest score of the world’s 50 most frequently acknowledged funding agencies, as tracked in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science.
