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Competition for funding as an indicator of research competitiveness

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  • Clara Eugenia Garcia

    (Department of Business Administration, University Carlos III)

  • Luis Sanz-Menéndez

    (CSIC Unit on Comparative Policy and Politics (UPC), SPRITTE (Spanish Policy Research on, Innovation & Technology, Training & Education))

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Summary Research quality is the cornerstone of modern science, it is used in the understanding of reputational differences among scientific and academic institutions. Traditionally, scientific activity is measured by a set of indicators and well-established bibliometric techniques based on the number of academic papers published in top-ranked journals or on the number of citations of these papers. These indicators are usually critical in measuring differences in research performance, both at individual and at scientific institutional levels. In this paper, we introduce an alternative and complementary set of indicators based on the results of competition for research funding, that aims to enlarge the framework in which research performance has traditionally been measured. Theoretical support for this paper is found in the role that the search for funding plays in the researchers’ credibility cycle as well as in peer review, the basic instrument for the allocation of public R&D funds. Our method analyses the outcomes of the researchers’ struggle for funding, using data from research proposal applications and awards, as the unit of observation, and aggregating them by research institutions to rank them in relative scales of research competitiveness.

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  • Clara Eugenia Garcia & Luis Sanz-Menéndez, 2005. "Competition for funding as an indicator of research competitiveness," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 64(3), pages 271-300, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:64:y:2005:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-005-0251-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-0251-x
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    1. Alexandre Rodrigues Oliveira & Carlos Fernando Mello, 2016. "Importance and susceptibility of scientific productivity indicators: two sides of the same coin," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 109(2), pages 697-722, November.
    2. Ruimin Ma & Chaoqun Ni & Junping Qiu, 2008. "Scientific research competitiveness of world universities in computer science," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 76(2), pages 245-260, August.
    3. Sandström, Ulf & Van den Besselaar, Peter, 2018. "Funding, evaluation, and the performance of national research systems," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 365-384.
    4. Matthias Fink & Johannes Gartner & Rainer Harms & Isabella Hatak, 2023. "Ethical Orientation and Research Misconduct Among Business Researchers Under the Condition of Autonomy and Competition," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 183(2), pages 619-636, March.
    5. Ling-Chu Lee & Yi-Yang Lee & Yi-Ching Liaw, 2012. "Bibliometric analysis for development of research strategies in agricultural technology: the case of Taiwan," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(3), pages 813-830, December.

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