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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbers

Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020

One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...

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Withering academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university" and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

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Research governance in academia : are there alternatives to academic rankings?

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take explicitly or implicitly agency theory as a theoretical basis. The emerging psychological economics opens a new perspective. As scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven...

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Key success drivers in public research grants : funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia?

Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2016

We study what makes a research grant application successful in terms of ability, type of research, experience, and demographics of the applicants. But our main objective is to investigate whether public funding organizations support the teams that are most likely to undertake transformative or...

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Publication performance vs. influence : on the questionable value of quality weighted publication rankings

Haucap, Justus; Thomas, Tobias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2017

In broad parts of the scientific community the position in publication performance rankings, based on journal quality ratings is seen as highly reputational for the scientist. This contribution provides evidence that, at least in economics, such publication performance measures can not always be...

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Undergraduate gender diversity and the direction of scientific research

Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities transitioned to coeducation. Using a generalized difference-in-differences design, we find that coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research...

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016

from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …

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Government funding of university-industry collaboration : exploring the impact of targeted funding on university patent activity

Nugent, Annita; Chan, Ho Fai; Dulleck, Uwe - 2019

of economic benefit by patent applications filed and granted. Interrogating the effect of targeted funding at a … university level we find award of U-I targeted grants coincides with increased patent activity compared to non-targeted grants …. Exploring the dynamics of the relationship, we observe the effect of U-I targeted grants on patent activity is short lived at an …

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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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