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Enhancing the prediction of publications' long-term impact using early citations, readerships, and non-scientific factors
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
This study aims to improve the accuracy of long-term citation impact prediction by integrating early citation counts, Mendeley readership, and various non-scientific factors, such…
Individual research performance: a proposal for comparing apples to oranges
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
The evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental importance in informing management decisions. The literature provides various indicators and types of measur…
The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
An increasing number of nations allocate public funds to research institutions on the basis of rankings obtained from national evaluation exercises. Therefore, in non-competitive h…
A field-standardized application of DEA to national-scale research assessment of universities
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
The current work proposes an application of DEA methodology for measurement of technical and allocative efficiency of university research activity. The analysis is based on bibliom…
Assessing the varying level of impact measurement accuracy as a function of the citation window length
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
With the passage of more time from the original date of publication, the measure of the impact of scientific works using subsequent citation counts becomes more accurate. However t…
A sensitivity analysis of research institutions' productivity rankings to the time of citation observation
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
One of the critical issues in bibliometric research assessments is the time required to achieve maturity in citations. Citation counts can be considered a reliable proxy of the rea…
The dispersion of research performance within and between universities as a potential indicator of the competitive intensity in higher education systems
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
Higher education systems in competitive environments generally present top universities, that are able to attract top scientists, top students and public and private financing, wit…
A sensitivity analysis of researchers' productivity rankings to the time of citation observation
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
In this work we investigate the sensitivity of individual researchers' productivity rankings to the time of citation observation. The analysis is based on observation of research p…
Revisiting size effects in higher education research productivity
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
The potential occurrence of variable returns to size in research activity is a factor to be considered in choices about the size of research organizations and also in the planning…
Revisiting the scaling of citations for research assessment
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
Over the past decade, national research evaluation exercises, traditionally conducted using the peer review method, have begun opening to bibliometric indicators. The citations rec…
What is the appropriate length of the publication period over which to assess research performance?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Tindaro Cicero
National research assessment exercises are conducted in different nations over varying periods. The choice of the publication period to be observed has to address often contrasting…
How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
Because of the variations in citation behavior across research fields, appropriate standardization must be applied as part of any bibliometric analysis of the productivity of indiv…
The impact of unproductive and top researchers on overall university research performance
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
Unlike competitive higher education systems, non-competitive systems show relatively uniform distributions of top professors and low performers among universities. In this study, w…
National peer-review research assessment exercises for the hard sciences can be a complete waste of money: the Italian case
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
There has been ample demonstration that bibliometrics is superior to peer-review for national research assessment exercises in the hard sciences. In this paper we examine the Itali…
Are the authors of highly cited articles also the most productive ones?
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
Ever more frequently, governments have decided to implement policy measures intended to foster and reward excellence in scientific research. This is in fact the intended purpose of…
Should the research performance of scientists be distinguished by gender?
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
The literature on gender differences in research performance seems to suggest a gap between men and women, where the former outperform the latter. Whether one agrees with the diffe…