Have you read this? An empirical comparison of the British REF peer review and the Italian VQR bibliometric algorithm

Gianni De Fraja, Alberto Ciolfi, Daniele Checchi, Irene Mazzotta and Stefano Verzillo

No 13521, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper determines the ranking of the publications units of assessment which were submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have been obtained if their submission had been evaluated with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency, ANVUR, for its evaluation of the research of Italian universities. We find very high correlation between the two methods, especially in regard to the funding allocation, with a headline figure of 0.9997 for the funding attributed to the institutions.

Keywords: Assessment of academic research; Incentives; University funding; University ranking; Publications; Bibliometry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-sog
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP13521 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm (2021)
Working Paper: Have You Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:13521

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP13521

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CEPR ().