National research assessment exercises: A measure of the distortion of performance rankings when labor input is treated as uniform

Scientometrics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 605-619

  Abramo, Giovanni ^a,b   D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea ^a   Solazzi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Cost efficiency; Research productivity; University ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954916618     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0164-1     Document Type: Article

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