Are Researcher Rankings Stable Across Alternative Output Measurement Schemes in the Context of a Time Limited Research Evaluation? The New Zealand Case

David L. Anderson () and John Tressler ()
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David L. Anderson: Queen's University

Working Papers in Economics from University of Waikato

Abstract: This paper focuses on the stability of rankings of academics by research productivity in the context of short-term decision making. In particular, the growing use of national research assessment exercises (NRAE) has increased interest in identifying the contributions of individual researchers to an assessment unit’s output and ranking. Our primary finding is that despite statistical evidence of a high degree of rank stability across a number of plausible journal weighting schemes, the journal selection process is of great importance to individual researchers. This applies with particular force to academics working within a NRAE environment based on individual assessment such as New Zealand’s PBRF.

Keywords: research measurement; journal ranking schemes; time pattern of citations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 C81 I23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2015-10-23
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