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How Should Peer‐review Panels Behave?

Volume: 123, Issue: 570, Pages: F255 - F278
Published: Aug 1, 2013
Abstract
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK’s new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer‐review panels will be provided with information on publications and citations. This article suggests a way in which panels could choose the weights to attach to these two indicators. The analysis draws in an intuitive way on the concept of Bayesian updating (where citations gradually...
Paper Details
Title
How Should Peer‐review Panels Behave?
Published Date
Aug 1, 2013
Volume
123
Issue
570
Pages
F255 - F278
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