Auditing the Auditors: An evaluation of the REF2021 Output Results

Oliver Linton and Emily Xu

Janeway Institute Working Papers from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We apply the Hole algorithm to evaluate the REF2021 output quality exercise. We find that the implied journal ranking agrees quite closely with the ABS-SCOB journal ranking, and in particular the GPA’s agree with a 91% correlation.

Keywords: Journal quality; Ranking; Research funding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11-08
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