考虑生产率差异的学术成果评估方法

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不同学术领域的生产力存在差异。在生产率较低的学术领域工作的研究人员面临着发表更多论文的压力,而这一政策可能会导致研究人员在标准宽松的期刊上发表更多论文,并发表对其学术领域不一定有价值的文章。将期刊的影响因子按学科归一化并不能解决这个问题,因为归一化后的影响因子并不能反映该学科的发表难度。本文提出了一种解决生产力差异问题的评价方法--参照组相似性指数。该方法使用被认为具有正确出版激励机制的参考组部门的出版物。然后,根据其他部门的出版物与参照组相似的程度对其进行评估。我们将该方法应用于 USNews 排名前 50 的经济学系,结果表明,我们从参照组相似性指数中得到的系排名与 USNews 排名基本一致。
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An evaluation method of academic output that considers productivity differences

There are productivity differences among academic fields. Researchers who work in academic fields that have low productivity are pressured to publish more, and this policy may cause researchers to publish more in journals that have lenient standards and publish articles that are not necessarily valuable for their academic field. The problem is not solved by normalizing journals’ impact factors by the subjects because the normalized impact factors do not reflect the difficulty of publication in that subject. In this paper, we propose an evaluation method –Reference Group Similarity Index-that addresses the productivity differences issue. The method uses the publications of a reference group of departments that are believed to have the right publication incentives. Then, other departments are evaluated to the degree that their publications are similar to that of the reference group. We apply the method to the top 50 economics departments according to USNews rankings and show that the department rankings that we get from the Reference Group Similarity Index are largely consistent with the USNews Rankings.

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Data and information management
Data and information management Management Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences
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