Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm

Checchi, Daniele; Ciolfi, Alberto; De Fraja, Gianni; Mazzotta, Irene; Verzillo, Stefano

Abstract

This paper determines the assessment of the publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency, ANVUR, for its evaluation of the research of Italian universities. We find extremely high correlations between the two assessment approaches.

Citation

Checchi, D., Ciolfi, A., De Fraja, G., Mazzotta, I., & Verzillo, S. (2021). Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm. Economica, 88(352), 1107-1129. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12373

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 16, 2021
• Online Publication Date: May 14, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: May 15, 2022
• Journal: Economica
• Print ISSN: 0013-0427
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-0335
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 88
• Issue: 352
• Pages: 1107-1129
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12373
• Keywords: Assessment of academic research; Incentives; University funding; University ranking; Publications; Bibliometry
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5352586
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecca.12373