Variability of research performance across disciplines within universities in non-competitive higher education systems.

Autor/inn/en	Abramo, Giovanni; D’Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea; Di Costa, Flavia
Titel	Variability of research performance across disciplines within universities in non-competitive higher education systems.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2013) 2, S.777-795 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-013-1088-3
Schlagwörter	Universities; Competition; Research productivity; Research evaluation; Bibliometrics; Italy
Abstract	Abstract Many nations are adopting higher education strategies that emphasize the development of elite universities able to compete at the international level in the attraction of skills and resources. Elite universities pursue excellence in all their disciplines and fields of action. The impression is that this does not occur in “non-competitive” education systems, and that instead, within single universities excellent disciplines will coexist with mediocre ones. To test this, the authors measure research productivity in the hard sciences for all Italian universities over the period 2004–2008 at the levels of the institution, their individual disciplines and fields within them. The results show that the distribution of excellent disciplines is not concentrated in a few universities: top universities show disciplines and fields that are often mediocre, while generally mediocre universities will often include top disciplines.
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2023/2/05