Performance-based research funding in EU Member States—a comparative assessment

Thomas, Zacharewicz; Lepori, Benedetto; Reale, Emanuela; Jonkers, Koen

doi:10.1093/scipol/scy041

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“…-Peer review status: In PRFSs, peer review status is typically an important aspect in the sense that peer-reviewed publications determine most if not all of the funding distribution (Hicks, 2013;Debackere et al, 2018;Zacharewicz et al, 2018). In particular for the SSH, however, the distinction between peerreviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications is not always evident (Pölönen et al, 2017;Dahler-Larsen, 2018).…”

Section: Research Rationalementioning

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To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Guns

Eykens

Engels

2019

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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This article presents a cohort analysis to study changes in the publication patterns of scholars working at a social sciences and humanities (SSH) university department or research unit in Flanders, Belgium. Starting from a comprehensive bibliographic database, we analyze the peer review status, publication language, publication type (journal article, book publication, or proceedings), and coverage in Web of Science (WoS) for publications produced between 2000 and 2014. Through a cohort analysis of the authors, a distinction can be made between effects that reflect changes in the characteristics of how researchers of comparable seniority publish (intracohort change) and effects that are due to the disappearance of researchers and/or introduction of new researchers (cohort succession). Our findings indicate that there is a trend across all five cohorts and in both the social sciences and humanities toward peer review, use of English, and publishing in WoS-indexed journals. While we witness clear intracohort changes, cohort succession effects are shown to be much weaker. The oldest cohort appears to maintain a traditional SSH profile, with lower shares of peer-reviewed publications, publications in English, journal articles, and publications indexed in WoS. As for publication types, all cohorts exhibit a slightly declining share of journal articles over time in favor of book publications, particularly in the humanities. The study shows that cohort analysis is a useful instrument to gain better insight into the evolution of publication patterns.

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Section: Research Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Guns

Eykens

Engels

2019

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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“…using output indicators or peer review) or without, which will influence the amount of incentives set by the block funding. Zacharewicz et al (2018) have recently classified the block funding systems of the EU countries including Switzerland, providing up to date information. Switzerland has a high share of GUF and is classified as not featuring a performance-based ex-post funding system, only with respect to education are there output-oriented metrics.…”

Section: Funding Context For Basic Research or Research In Higher Edumentioning

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“…Germany's universities are financed by its Länder (states), and although the mechanisms for funding differ, Germany is classified by Zacharewicz et al, 2018, as having only a limited research performance based funding model, just like the Netherlands and Austria. The UK, by contrast, features a strong peer-review based allocation model of block funding, so that nearly all of the public funding coming into British universities is peer reviewed, either ex-post or ex-ante.…”

Section: Funding Context For Basic Research or Research In Higher Edumentioning

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International differences in basic research grant funding - a sytematic comparison.

Janger¹,

Schmidt²,

Strauss³

2019

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“…Researchers are aware that their publication metrics are being used in tenure track assessments, grant applications and job interviews and target them accordingly [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Any metric that can be measured, can be gamed and naturally, there are many methods in use whose principle aim is to boost the h-index, h, [15,16] number of publications, N P , [17,18] and number of citations, N C [19,20].…”

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Effective publication strategies in clinical research

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Researchers in Europe are increasingly assessed by their publication metrics. To uncover the effect of quantitative assessment on the publication strategies of clinical researchers in Denmark, we interviewed 9 senior researchers at the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark with the lowest and highest values for a, as defined by Hirsch. Our aim is to investigate the importance of these metrics to their academic careers: h-index, number of publications, number of citations, international collaborations, local collaborations, field specific journal publishing and high journal impact factor publishing. To validate our findings we compared their publication record to their statistically analyzed stated publication strategy. Our results indicate two styles of publication strategy used by these senior researchers. Researchers with Low a engage in local collaborations, disseminate knowledge in local media and publish in field specific journals, while researchers with High a engage in international collaborations, invest significant time in publishing in the highest impact journals in their field, and acquire a greater number of citations. Both publication strategies can lead to a successful academic career, yet we have an indication through the h5-index that the practices of the High a group are more likely to nudge the h-index.

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Performance-based research funding in EU Member States—a comparative assessment

Cited by 102 publications

References 15 publications

To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

To What Extent Do Successive Cohorts Adopt Different Publication Patterns? Peer Review, Language Use, and Publication Types in the Social Sciences and Humanities

International differences in basic research grant funding - a sytematic comparison.

Effective publication strategies in clinical research

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