Letter to the editor: comments on the paper of Aparna Basu et al.: designing a composite index for research performance evaluation at the national or regional level: ranking central universities in India

Gangan Prathap ()
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Gangan Prathap: Vidya Academy of Science and Technology

Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 108, issue 3, No 38, 1685-1687

Abstract: Abstract In this discussion we show that the significance of the cubic relationship observed in Basu et al. (Scientometrics, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-1935-0) can be explained simply—QQCI is a proxy for the normalized form of the exergy term X = (TC2/TP) and so the relationship seen in Nishy et al. (Scientometrics 91(1):245–251, 2012) is just confirmed. The original data is reworked to show explicitly the values of X and h3 and using a correlation test it is shown that there is remarkable agreement between X and h3.

Keywords: National ranking; Research competitiveness; Research ranking; Scientometrics; University ranking; Exergy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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