HOW SHOULD PEER-REVIEW PANELS BEHAVE?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J.
• 署名单位: University of Warwick
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12070
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: F255-F278
• 关键词: research assessment exercise; INFORMATION; journals; universities; performance; ECONOMICS; ranking; CHOICE; MODEL

摘要

Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This article suggests a way in which panels could choose the weights to attach to these two indicators. The analysis draws in an intuitive way on the concept of Bayesian updating (where citations gradually reveal information about the initially imperfectly observed importance of the research). Our study should not be interpreted as the argument that only mechanistic measures ought to be used in a REF.