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Evaluating the Performance of UK Research in Economics

Nicholas Vasilakos (), Gauthier Lanot and Timothy Worrall

No KERP 2007/10, Keele Economics Research Papers from Centre for Economic Research, Keele University

Abstract: This paper reports on available bibliometric evidence on the performance of UK research in economics. It examines some standard and non-standard sources of bibliometric evidence and in particular evidence from the ISI and EconLit databases and the Repository of Papers in Economics (RePEc). It also reports on research capacity of UK economics and some non-bibliometric sources of evidence.

Keywords: Research evaluation; bibliometrics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 71 pages
Date: 2007-07
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Note: Research for this project has been sponsored by the Royal Economic Society. The views expresed in the paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Royal Economic Society. The authors wish to thank Alan Carruth and Denise Osborn for helpful comments and discussions on this report, and to Christian Zimmermann for valuable comments on an earlier draft.
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