Citations as a Measure of the Research Outputs of New Zealand’s Economics Departments: The Problem of ‘Long and Variable Lags’
Abstract
The paper explores the merits of utilising citation counts to measure research output in economics in the context of a nationwide research evaluation scheme: the New Zealand Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF). Citations were collected for all refereed papers produced by New Zealand's academic economists over the period 2000 to 2008, and used to estimate the time-lags in between publication and the flow of citations; to demonstrate the impact...
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Title
Citations as a Measure of the Research Outputs of New Zealand’s Economics Departments: The Problem of ‘Long and Variable Lags’
Published Date
Jul 1, 2012
Volume
19
Issue
01
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