Institutional research rankings via bibliometric analysis and direct peer review: A comparative case study with policy implications

P. Thomas; D. Watkins

doi:10.1007/bf02459050

Scientometrics

Volume/Issue:: Volume 41: Issue 3

Institutional research rankings via bibliometric analysis and direct peer review: A comparative case study with policy implications

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P. Thomas

P. Thomas Southampton Institute Southampton Business School SO14 0YN Southampton (UK)

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D. Watkins Southampton Institute Southampton Business School SO14 0YN Southampton (UK)

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Pages:: 335–355

Online Publication Date:: 26 Jul 2006

Publication Date:: 01 Mar 1998

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02459050

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Abstract

Recent years have seen enormously increased interest in the comparative evaluation of research quality in the UK, with considerable resources devoted to ranking the output of academic institutions relative to one another at the sub-discipline level, and the disposition of even greater resources dependent on the outcome of this process. The preferred methodology has been that of traditional peer review, with expert groups of academics tasked to assess the relative worth of all research activity in ‘their’ field. Extension toinstitutional evaluation of a recently refined technique ofjournal ranking (Discipline Contribution Scoring) holds out the possibility of ‘automatic’ evaluation within a time-frame considerably less than would be required using methods based directly on citation counts within the corpus of academic work under review. This paper tests the feasibility of the technique in the sub-field of Business and Management Studies Research, producing rankings which are highly correlated with those generated by the much more complex and expensive direct peer review approach. More generally, the analysis also gives a rare opportunity directly to compare the equivalence of peer review bibliometric analysis over a whole sub-field of academic activity in a non-experimental setting.

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