Calculating the excellence shift: How efficiently do institutions produce highly cited papers?

Bornmann, Lutz and Wohlrabe, Klaus (2017): Calculating the excellence shift: How efficiently do institutions produce highly cited papers?

Abstract

The excellence shift is proposed, which shows universities’ ability to produce highly cited papers as measured against their basic academic research efficiency (ARE). To demonstrate our approach, we use data from 50 US universities.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Efficiency, high-impact papers, excellence shift
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I21 - Analysis of Education; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions

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