Detecting structural change in university research systems: A case study of british research policy

Research Evaluation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 258-268

  Wang, Jian ^a,b   Hicks, Diana ^b  

^a Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance   (Germany)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based policy making; Peormance based research funding systems; Research policy; Structural change detection; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887900383     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvt016     Document Type: Article

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