Evaluating academic science institutions in South Africa

Anastassios Pouris

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989, vol. 40, issue 4, 269-272

Abstract: It is important for students, researchers, and research funding organizations to be able to rank academic institutions, as future employment opportunities and research funding are determined by the quality of the institution. This article ranks fourteen South African academic institutions according to the number of their front‐line researchers as identified by a large scale peer evaluation, and according to their research output. The two rankings are found to be highly correlated. It is argued that the high correlation provides evidence for the value of “publication counts” as a proxy for research quality and that research output is an efficient and easily obtained predictor of university rankings according to peer reviews. © 1989 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1989
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