How should research performance be measured? A study of Swedish economists

Arbeitspapier

Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no consensus regarding how such rankings should be conducted and what output measures are appropriate to use. We rank all full professors in a particular discipline, economics, in one country using seven established, and some of them commonly used, meas-ures of research performance. Our examination shows both that the rank order can vary greatly across measures, and that depending on the measure used the distribution of total research output is valued very differently.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 712

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Role of Economics; Role of Economists; Market for Economists ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Sociology of Economics ; Economic Methodology
• Subject: Impact of Research ; Ranking ; Research Output ; Research Productivity ; Bibliometrics ; Google Scholar ; h-index ; Impact Factor ; SSCI ; Ökonomen ; Bibliometrie ; Ranking-Verfahren ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Henrekson, Magnus ; Waldenström, Daniel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/95655
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET