How incentives trickle down: Local use of a national bibliometric indicator system

Science and Public Policy

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 725-737

  Aagaard, Kaare ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Performance based research funding systems; Publication performance; Research management; Research policy

Indexed keywords

INCENTIVE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL ECONOMY; RESEARCH METHOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

NORWAY;

EID: 84943789803     PISSN: 03023427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scipol/scu087     Document Type: Article

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