| Revista: | Journal of applied economics |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000399274 |
| ISSN: | 1667-6726 |
| Autors: | Frey, Bruno S1 Rost, Katja1 |
| Institucions: | 1University of Zurich, Institute for Organization and Administrative Science, Zurich. Suiza |
| Any: | 2010 |
| Període: | May |
| Volum: | 13 |
| Número: | 1 |
| Paginació: | 1-38 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Aplicado |
| Resumen en inglés | Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of any evaluation. These quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples, produce entirely different results. For that reason, an alternative ranking is developed as a quality indicator, based on membership on academic editorial boards of professional journals. It turns out that the ranking of individual scholars based on that measure is far from objective. Furthermore, the results differ markedly, depending on whether research quantity or quality is considered. Thus, career decisions based on rankings are dominated by chance and do not reflect research quality. We suggest that evaluations should rely on multiple criteria. Public management should return to approved methods such as engaging independent experts who in turn provide measurements of research quality for their research communities |
| Disciplines | Educación, Economía |
| Paraules clau: | Educación superior, Sociología de la educación, Econometría, Censos y estadísticas, Evaluación educativa, Universidades, Académicos, Calidad de la educación, Rankings |
| Text complet: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
