Performance-based university research funding systems

Hicks, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.09.007

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“…An increasing trend is evident when comparing three overviews of the situation at different times (Geuna and Martin, 2003;Hicks, 2012;Jonkers and Zacharewicz, 2016). Countries can be divided in four categories regarding their use of bibliometrics in PRFS:…”

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“…The two main purposes of a PRFS, research evaluation and funding allocation, can be difficult to distinguish. Hicks (2012) defines PRFS as related to both purposes; they are "national systems of research output evaluation used to distribute research funding to universities". Within a theoretical framework for regarding the two purposes as inseparable, "metrics (mis)uses" are no more than possible (mal)practices in the general domain of research evaluation systems (de Rijcke et al, 2016).…”

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Unique, but still best practice? The Research Excellence Framework (REF) from an international perspective

Sivertsen

2017

Palgrave Commun

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Inspired by The Metric Tide report (2015) on the role of metrics in research assessment and management, and Lord Nicholas Stern's report Building on Success and Learning from Experience (2016), which deals with criticisms of REF2014 and gives advice for a redesign of REF2021, this article discusses the possible implications for other countries. It also contributes to the discussion of the future of the REF by taking an international perspective. The article offers a framework for understanding differences in the motivations and designs of performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) across countries. It also shows that a basis for mutual learning among countries is more needed than a formulation of best practice, thereby both contributing to and correcting the international outlook in The Metric Tide report and its supplementary Literature Review.

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Unique, but still best practice? The Research Excellence Framework (REF) from an international perspective

Sivertsen

2017

Palgrave Commun

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“…In the RAE institution of UK, universities participating in the assessment are usually asked to provide detailed information about researchers, research output, students participating in research, research scholarship, external research input, research environment and reputation [5,6]. In the research performance assessment system of CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences), only performance indexes directly relevant to Research including the quantity, quality and funds of researches are involved.…”

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Research Performance Evaluation of Chinese University Based on DEA

Li¹

2017

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Abstract. The university performance evaluation has been one of the difficult problems for a long time. And the university research performance evaluation is a difficulty of difficulties. Based on the practice experience of research performance evaluation from developed countries, this paper summarized and reflected on the main characteristics and shortcomings of Chinese university research performance evaluation indexes and methods, and built the measuring index system based on data envelopment analysis (DEA). Then it put forward performance evaluation technology with the combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and DEA, trying to explore the evaluation mode of university research performance innovatively.

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“…The funding of research institutions is partly performance-based in most European countries (Hicks, 2012). Best known is the research assessment exercise in the United Kingdom, recently implemented as the Research Excellence Framework in 2014.…”

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Data integration in Scandinavia

Sivertsen

2015

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Recent developments in Scandinavia may be of interest in relation to developing an integrated European research information structure that could provide the basis for an improved knowledge base for research policy. This article describes how reliable bibliographic data in institutional or national research information systems have been developed in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden with performance-based institutional funding models as a driver. It also discusses in more general terms the limitations and potentials of using data from research information systems in bibliometric analysis and in social studies of science.

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Performance-based university research funding systems

Cited by 793 publications

References 23 publications

Unique, but still best practice? The Research Excellence Framework (REF) from an international perspective

Unique, but still best practice? The Research Excellence Framework (REF) from an international perspective

Research Performance Evaluation of Chinese University Based on DEA

Data integration in Scandinavia

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