Search results for "Research Excellence Framework"

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Performance-based research funding: Evidence from the largest natural experiment worldwide

2023

A performance-based research funding system (PRFS) is a nationwide incentive scheme that promotes and rewards university research performance through competition for government funding. The UK’s PRFS, currently the Research Excellence Framework (REF), is considered the oldest, largest and most developed payment-by-results system in academia worldwide. Surprisingly, and despite the strong criticisms, little has been done to quantitatively and casually evaluate the intended and unintended effects of the PRFSs. In this paper, we evaluate the incremental impact of the REF 2014 in the fields of Economics and Business. We use a synthetic control method to compare the performance of UK universitie…

Research Excellence FrameworkSynthetic control methodResearch policySettore SECS-S/06 -Metodi Mat. dell'Economia e d. Scienze Attuariali e Finanz.Management of Technology and InnovationStrategy and ManagementPerformance-based research funding systemManagement Science and Operations ResearchResearch productivityResearch Policy
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Open Access & Research Assessment: Implementing OA for REF2021

2017

British Research Excellence Framework 2021 and it´s implications to deposit and access requirements of research publications.

Research Excellence Frameworkopen accessself-archivingUniversity of Edinburgh
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