Government investment in university research results in greater output and impact. To better capture economic benefits … stemming from university research, governments have developed funding programs specifically targeting university … evaluate the effect of one such scheme, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project scheme, by comparing it to its …

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate … research output and thus provide a novel ranking measure that explicitly takes into account the spillover effect generated in …

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all … coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research publications. This increase is driven by research focused on female … gender topics, much of the increase comes from male incumbent researchers shifting their research focus toward gender …

We study what makes a research grant application successful in terms of ability, type of research, experience, and … that are most likely to undertake transformative or "radical" research. Making use of the literature on recombinant … heterogeneous and scientifically diverse. Our results, using data from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council …

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … scholarly research is a mainly curiosity driven endeavor, we include intrinsic motivation and supportive feedback by the peers … offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings. -- peer reviews ; rankings ; research governance ; agency …

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research … amount of research grants. The present study investigates whether both lead to similar or different assessments of … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …

. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide …