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Pride, David and Knoth, Petr
(2018).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_17
Abstract
Most Performance-based Research Funding Systems (PRFS) draw on peer review and bibliometric indicators, two different method- ologies which are sometimes combined. A common argument against the use of indicators in such research evaluation exercises is their low corre- lation at the article level with peer review judgments. In this study, we analyse 191,000 papers from 154 higher education institutes which were peer reviewed in a national research evaluation exercise. We combine these data with 6.95 million citations to the original papers. We show that when citation-based indicators are applied at the institutional or departmental level, rather than at the level of individual papers, surpris- ingly large correlations with peer review judgments can be observed, up to r <= 0.802, n = 37, p < 0.001 for some disciplines. In our evaluation of ranking prediction performance based on citation data, we show we can reduce the mean rank prediction error by 25% compared to previous work. This suggests that citation-based indicators are sufficiently aligned with peer review results at the institutional level to be used to lessen the overall burden of peer review on national evaluation exercises leading to considerable cost savings.
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- Item ORO ID
- 55743
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- ISBN
- 3-030-00066-4, 978-3-030-00066-0
- Keywords
- REF; citation analysis; bibliometrics; peer review; semantometrics
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG)
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- © 2018 Springer Nature
- Depositing User
- David Pride