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12/20/2018
Individual research performance: a proposal for comparing apples to oranges
The evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental ...
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11/05/2018
The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems
An increasing number of nations allocate public funds to research instit...
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11/05/2018
A field-standardized application of DEA to national-scale research assessment of universities
The current work proposes an application of DEA methodology for measurem...
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11/05/2018
Assessing the varying level of impact measurement accuracy as a function of the citation window length
With the passage of more time from the original date of publication, the...
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11/05/2018
A sensitivity analysis of research institutions' productivity rankings to the time of citation observation
One of the critical issues in bibliometric research assessments is the t...
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11/05/2018
The dispersion of research performance within and between universities as a potential indicator of the competitive intensity in higher education systems
Higher education systems in competitive environments generally present t...
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11/05/2018
A sensitivity analysis of researchers' productivity rankings to the time of citation observation
In this work we investigate the sensitivity of individual researchers' p...
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11/05/2018
Revisiting size effects in higher education research productivity
The potential occurrence of variable returns to size in research activit...
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10/31/2018
Revisiting the scaling of citations for research assessment
Over the past decade, national research evaluation exercises, traditiona...
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10/31/2018
What is the appropriate length of the publication period over which to assess research performance?
National research assessment exercises are conducted in different nation...
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10/31/2018
How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?
Because of the variations in citation behavior across research fields, a...
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10/31/2018
The impact of unproductive and top researchers on overall university research performance
Unlike competitive higher education systems, non-competitive systems sho...
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10/31/2018
National peer-review research assessment exercises for the hard sciences can be a complete waste of money: the Italian case
There has been ample demonstration that bibliometrics is superior to pee...
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10/30/2018
Are the authors of highly cited articles also the most productive ones?
Ever more frequently, governments have decided to implement policy measu...
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10/30/2018