The traditional indicators for research performance evaluation, such as numbers of articles,citations and cited rate, are not comparable for different units and different disciplines, due to the influence of scale effect and difference in citing behavior. Three new relative indicators: disciplinary output index, disciplinary impact index and discipline efficiency index are proposed, by introduction of concepts of unit, entirety and comparison benchmark, to characterize an unit's relative ability in output, influence and efficiency in a discipline. To verify their effectiveness, two samples to evaluate the research performance in institution and nation levels are given. Finally, both the advantages of these indexes in characterization of the relative change in the research strength of the evaluation object, and the possibility of their expanding application are discussed.
Hua Fang
. Study of Indexes for Quantitative Evaluation of Research Performance Based on Discipline Benchmarking[J]. Library and Information Service, 2014
, 58(03)
: 78
-84
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DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2014.03.012
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