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A multivariate stochastic model to assess research performance

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  • Giovanni Abramo

    (National Research Council of Italy)

  • Corrado Costa

    (Unità di ricerca per l’Ingegneria Agraria)

  • Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo

    (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)

Abstract

There is a worldwide trend towards application of bibliometric research evaluation, in support of the needs of policy makers and research administrators. However the assumptions and limitations of bibliometric measurements suggest a probabilistic rather than the traditional deterministic approach to the assessment of research performance. The aim of this work is to propose a multivariate stochastic model for measuring the performance of individual scientists and to compare the results of its application with those arising from a deterministic approach. The dataset of the analysis covers the scientific production indexed in Web of Science for the 2006–2010 period, of over 900 Italian academic scientists working in two distinct fields of the life sciences.

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  • Giovanni Abramo & Corrado Costa & Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo, 2015. "A multivariate stochastic model to assess research performance," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 102(2), pages 1755-1772, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:102:y:2015:i:2:d:10.1007_s11192-014-1474-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1474-5
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