Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems
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Highlights：
• For comparative studies of country performance we use the change of indicators (input-research funding and output-top 10% publications) instead of level of funding (e.g. in absolute numbers).
• We find that increasing the share of competitive funding – instead of institutional funding does not result in a more efficient system.
• National research systems with a systematic performance-based evaluation seem to perform better than nations without such a system.
• Strong university management does not seem to go together with efficient use of research money.
• We conclude that many of the accepted ideas about high performing systems are not supported in our analysis.
摘要
•For comparative studies of country performance we use the change of indicators (input-research funding and output-top 10% publications) instead of level of funding (e.g. in absolute numbers).•We find that increasing the share of competitive funding – instead of institutional funding does not result in a more efficient system.•National research systems with a systematic performance-based evaluation seem to perform better than nations without such a system.•Strong university management does not seem to go together with efficient use of research money.•We conclude that many of the accepted ideas about high performing systems are not supported in our analysis.
论文关键词：Research policy,Input-output studies,Performance-based funding,Research efficiency,Bibliometrics,Citations
论文评审过程：Received 11 August 2017, Revised 15 January 2018, Accepted 15 January 2018, Available online 22 February 2018, Version of Record 22 February 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.01.007
