In Finland, universities have the explicit mandate to support the transformation of high-quality knowledge into profitable business, as well as to promote the creation of new businesses and workplaces within the boundaries of their so-called third mission. This report looks at how Finnish...

In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German academic economists, we first show that research...

Der Aufsatz diskutiert das Vorgehen bei und die Konsequenzen aus der Einführung von Evaluation und Akkreditierung in die deutsche Hochschullandschaft. Es wird gezeigt, dass Akkreditierung und Evaluation zwei Seiten einer Münze bilden, die sich jedoch in ihrer Perspektive unterscheiden....

Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This paper suggests a way in which panels could choose...