Measuring Research Excellence Amongst Economics Lecturers in the UK

Richard McManus, Karen Mumford () and Cristina Sechel ()
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Richard McManus: University of Canterbury
Cristina Sechel: University of Sheffield

No 14156, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics Lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these Lecturers were submitted to REF2014; 57% of men and 46% of women. The decision making of Institutions is found to be well approximated by a simplified selection approach; focusing on working papers and higher quality journal publications. Our results also reveal sizeable conditional differences in the probability of selection, especially so in departments with higher research rankings. More than half of the variance in selection probability remains unexplained, revealing considerable idiosyncrasies in the management of submissions and uncertainty across the discipline in this research assessment process.

Keywords: quality; outputs; selection; gender; REF; inclusivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J00 J44 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2021-03
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Published - pubished in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022, 74 (2), 386 - 404

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