Counting quality? The Czech performance-based research funding system

Research Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 91-105

  Good, Barbara ^a   Vermeulen, Niki ^b   Tiefenthaler, Brigitte ^a   Arnold, Erik ^a,c  

^a Technopolis Group Austria   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Czech Republic; Eastern Europe; Evaluation methodology; Impact; Performance based research funding system (PRFS); Research policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942254810     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvu035     Document Type: Article

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