Institutional research rankings via bibliometric analysis and direct peer review: A comparative case study with policy implications |
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Authors: | P R Thomas D S Watkins |
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Affiliation: | (1) Southampton Business School, Southampton Institute, SO14 0YN Southampton, (UK) |
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Abstract: | Recent years have seen enormously increased interest in the comparative evaluation of research quality in the UK, with considerable
resources devoted to ranking the output of academic institutions relative to one another at the sub-discipline level, and
the disposition of even greater resources dependent on the outcome of this process. The preferred methodology has been that
of traditional peer review, with expert groups of academics tasked to assess the relative worth of all research activity in
‘their’ field. Extension toinstitutional evaluation of a recently refined technique ofjournal ranking (Discipline Contribution Scoring) holds out the possibility of ‘automatic’ evaluation within a time-frame considerably
less than would be required using methods based directly on citation counts within the corpus of academic work under review.
This paper tests the feasibility of the technique in the sub-field of Business and Management Studies Research, producing
rankings which are highly correlated with those generated by the much more complex and expensive direct peer review approach.
More generally, the analysis also gives a rare opportunity directly to compare the equivalence of peer review bibliometric
analysis over a whole sub-field of academic activity in a non-experimental setting. |
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