Rising Stars
Erich Battistin () and
Marco Ovidi
No def106, DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE)
Abstract:
We use the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study the attributes of top-scoring (four-star) publications in Economics and Econometrics. Although official documents contain aggregate scores for each institution, we show how these aggregates can be used to infer the score awarded by REF panellists to each publication. We demonstrate that this score responds to journal prestige as measured by the Thomson Reuters Article Influence Score. Several econometric analyses confirm the limited contribution of other publication attributes, such as the citation counts, to the awarded score, and publications in the top generalist and top-five economics journals are unambiguously awarded four stars. We conclude that in large-scale evaluations such as the REF, peer reviews and bibliometrics should be viewed as complementary modes of assessment: the time-consuming task of peer reviews would be more costeffective if targeted to publications whose quality cannot be unambiguously classified using bibliometrics.
Keywords: Education Policy; Higher Education; Journal Ranking; Research Funding. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 H83 I23 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55
Date: 2021-06
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