Measurement and determinants of academic research efficiency: a systematic review of the evidence

Mehdi Rhaiem ()
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Mehdi Rhaiem: Laval University

Scientometrics, 2017, vol. 110, issue 2, No 3, 615 pages

Abstract: Abstract What is academic research efficiency and what determines the differences between scholars’ academic research efficiency? The literature on this topic has evolved exponentially during the last decades. However, the divergence of the approaches used, the differences in the bundles of outputs and inputs considered to estimate the efficiency frontiers, and the differences in the predictors of efficiency variability among scholars that are considered in prior studies, make it interesting to have an overview of the literature dedicated to this topic. Relying on a systematic review of empirical studies published between 1990 and 2012, this article proposes and discusses a framework which brings together a set of outputs and inputs related to academic research efficiency, and the individual, organizational, and contextual factors driving or hampering it. The ensuing results highlight several avenues which would help university administrators and policy makers to better foster academic research efficiency, and researchers to better channel their efforts in studying the phenomenon.

Keywords: Management of science; Efficiency; DEA; Stochastic programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2173-1

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