Calculating the excellence shift: How efficiently do institutions produce highly cited papers?

Lutz Bornmann () and Klaus Wohlrabe

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Abstract: The excellence shift is proposed, which shows universities’ ability to produce highly cited papers as measured against their basic academic research efficiency (ARE). To demonstrate our approach, we use data from 50 US universities.

Keywords: Efficiency; high-impact papers; excellence shift (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 A12 I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05-12
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