The New Zealand performance-based research fund and its impact on publication activity in economics

Research Evaluation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Anderson, David L ^a,b   Tressler, John ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

PBRF; research assessment exercises; research measurement; research quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892732083     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvt017     Document Type: Article

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