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TY - JOUR
T1 - Apples and oranges
T2 - the aggregation problem in publications analysis
AU - Johnes, Jill
AU - Johnes, Geraint
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - A major difficulty with bibliometric measures of departmental research contributions based upon publications counts has concerned the summing of publications of different types. An attempt is made in this paper to bypass this aggregation problem by appeal to the methods of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In this way we investigate the technical efficiency of UK university departments of economics as producers of research. The data set used is an extended version of the one which informed the recent Universities Funding Council peer review, and the results obtained here are compared with those obtained by the Council. We conclude that, although due caution is needed in the interpretation of results, DEA has a positive contribution to make in the development of meaningful indicators of university performance.
AB - A major difficulty with bibliometric measures of departmental research contributions based upon publications counts has concerned the summing of publications of different types. An attempt is made in this paper to bypass this aggregation problem by appeal to the methods of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In this way we investigate the technical efficiency of UK university departments of economics as producers of research. The data set used is an extended version of the one which informed the recent Universities Funding Council peer review, and the results obtained here are compared with those obtained by the Council. We conclude that, although due caution is needed in the interpretation of results, DEA has a positive contribution to make in the development of meaningful indicators of university performance.
U2 - 10.1007/BF02028091
DO - 10.1007/BF02028091
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 353
EP - 365
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
SN - 0138-9130
IS - 2
ER -