An Empirical Approach to Compare the Performance of Heterogeneous Academic Fields
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Research assessment; Normalization; Scaling; Universality; Italian Universities;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2012-12-10 (Education)
- NEP-EFF-2012-12-10 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-SOG-2012-12-10 (Sociology of Economics)
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