The ratio of top scientists to the academic staff as an indicator of the competitive strength of universities

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Highlights：

• We propose an indicator of the competitive strength of the universities.

• Identifying Italian top scientists by research productivity in over 200 fields.

• Ranking universities by the ratio of top scientists to the overall faculty.

• We contrast such rankings with that by productivity of the overall faculty.

摘要

•We propose an indicator of the competitive strength of the universities.•Identifying Italian top scientists by research productivity in over 200 fields.•Ranking universities by the ratio of top scientists to the overall faculty.•We contrast such rankings with that by productivity of the overall faculty.

论文关键词：Research evaluation,Bibliometrics,Rankings,FSS,Italy

论文评审过程：Received 29 January 2016, Revised 19 April 2016, Accepted 19 April 2016, Available online 6 May 2016, Version of Record 6 May 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.04.013