Starting out from a broad concept of research output, this article looks at the question as to what research outputs can typically be expected from certain disciplines. Based on a secondary analysis of data from final project reports (ex post research evaluation) at the Austrian Science Fund...

Due to the disadvantages of the h index that have been named since Hirsch's first publication of the index in 2005 (Hirsch, 2005), a number of variants that are intended to compensate for the weaknesses have been proposed. Bornmann et al (2008a, 2009b) tested (1) whether the variants developed...

We investigated committee peer review for awarding long-term fellowships to post-graduate researchers as practised by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) — a foundation for the promotion of basic research in biomedicine. The most important aspect of our study was to investigate the predictive...

Jorge Hirsch has proposed the h index as a single-number criterion to evaluate the scientific output of a researcher. Using comprehensive data sets of applicants to the long-term fellowship and young investigator programmes of the European Molecular Biology Organization, we determined the...

The allocation of resources for scientific research is determined by panel peer review. To make funding recommendations, the reviewers convene to evaluate the quality of grant applications. Many research studies in social psychology have investigated what (undesired) phenomena (such as...

In this study we analysed the committee peer review process used by an international foundation for the promotion of basic research in biomedicine (Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds) as to whether the scientific field of study within which the research project is proposed and the institutional prestige...

More than 4,500 open access (OA) journals have now become established in science. But doubts exist about the quality of the manuscript selection process for publication in these journals. In this study we investigate the quality of the selection process of an OA journal, taking as an example the...

This study examined the peer review process at the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition — the referees' recommendations and the editors' decisions to accept or reject submitted manuscripts for publication — for evidence of potential sources of bias. To analyze referees'...