Setting research priorities: an example from agriculture using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Frank Hartwich and Willem Janssen

Research Evaluation, 2000, vol. 9, issue 3, 201-210

Abstract: How should potential research outputs be compared, in order to set priorities, when a diverse range of goals and outputs is possible? This paper introduces a multiple-criteria weighting method, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which can be applied in ex post research evaluation. AHP transforms qualitative subjective judgments into quantitative data (weights). It is a decision analysis technique. The method is illustrated with a simple hypothetical example from a sorghum research program. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2000
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