The evaluation of scientific research is crucial for both the academic community and society as a whole. Numerous … bibliometric indices have been proposed for the ranking of research performance, mainly on an ad hoc basis. We now introduce the … novel class of Scientific Research Measures (SRMs) to rank scientists' research performance and provide a rigorous …

findings, and of their research field as a whole. The paper emphasizes a dynamic view of research processes, in which learning …-makers tomorrow, dynamic research processes are affected by research externalities, i.e. research practices that have high social … value but low private returns. The paper identifies several of these research externalities and argues that funding …