The phrase "acknowledged as the source" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone or something that is recognized or accepted as the origin of information or ideas.
Example: "The research paper was acknowledged as the source of the new findings in the field."
Alternatives: "recognized as the origin" or "accepted as the reference".
PIRMANN, DAVID -- The man who created and maintains the Web site nycsubway.org, gratefully acknowledged as the source of many details reported here.
The interim constitution offers an independent Scotland a different future from that available in the UK: one where the people are acknowledged as the source of public power.
"His rich use of language has resulted in being acknowledged as the source of words and phrases such as 'moochin', a difficult or disagreeable person.
When black Americans wear African garbs, our appreciation is clear: the Motherland is always acknowledged as the source.
I have been thus particular on the pseudodipteros, because it displays the skill and ingenuity with which Hermogenes designed those his works; which cannot be but acknowledged as the sources whence his successors have derived their best principles.
Members of the TSC will be listed and their contribution acknowledged, as will the funding source (NIHR School for Primary Care Research).
Originally written in three notebooks, his account has been acknowledged as the "central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s".
Even though including replicates in the 454 study design has been acknowledged as the most important source for detecting analytical errors, the percentage of implemented replicates in previous studies is null or rather low e.g. [ 12, 14, 15].
According to a number of scholars and medieval Armenian sources, Mesrop Mashtots, generally acknowledged as the creator of the Armenian alphabet, also created the Georgian and Caucasian Albanian alphabets.
It was actually the tenth, the first being No. 1,316, when I acknowledged Araucaria as the source of the idea; he sets them regularly in the subscription crossword monthly One Across.
Quoting the bank regulators, Brown asked her simply: "Why are they wrong and you're right?" Miller stuck to her previous remarks -- the evidence that big banks unfairly benefit from a funding advantage remains mixed -- but the potentially divisive question showed what some Democrats privately acknowledged as a source of frustration with the Obama administration over financial regulation.
