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Study 8 /2016
Czech research centres' publication performance in the period 2009-2013, by field of research5 MAY 2016
ŠTĚPÁN JURAJDA7), STANISLAV KOZUBEK8), DANIEL MÜNICH7), SAMUEL ŠKODA7)67
Summary
Evaluating Czech research institutions is largely reduced to automatized scoring of R&D otputs. The sole exception is the practice of the Czech Academy of Sciences.8 The results of the government’s evaluation of research centres, in the form in which they are processed and officially presented to the public, have little informational value for the management of the R&D system and individual research workplaces. At the same time, the system (of data collection about the R&D results, verification and basic classification) offers several unused possibilities, to convey valuable information about the quantity and the quality of research workplaces' publication performance both to the academic community and to the broader public.
Our overview exploits these possibilities for results published in journals listed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The presented comparison is an update of the IDEA study (2015),9 the publication performance comparison of Czech research centres, mainly of universities and institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in the period of 2009-2013. The underlying logic of the updated comparison, its advantages, disadvantages, limitations and shortcomings remain more or less the same as before, therefore we refer the reader to the detailed explanations in the aforementioned study.
The main change from the previous comparison (besides shifting the five-year window by one year) is the usage of an alternative citation index: while our previous comparison differentiated results from journals by the Impact Factor index, the updated comparison uses the Article Influence Score, which weighs citations according to their importance.
5 This study was mady possible by support from the CAS within the "AV21" Strategy. The authors would like to thank to Section for Science, Research and Innovation within the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic for providing the primary data sources of the Evaluation 2014.
6 Think-tank IDEA at CERGE-EI, a joint academic workplace of the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Charles University.
7 Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
8 The Czech Academy of Sciences implemented in 2015 and published in April 2016 results of complex institutional evaluations of ots workplaces and teams.
9 IDEA 2015: Czech research centres´publication performance in the period 2008-2012, by field of research
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