When research assessment exercises leave room for opportunistic behavior by the subjects under evaluation |
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| Institution: | 1. Laboratory for Studies in Research Evaluation at the Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science (IASI-CNR), National Research Council of Italy, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi e Informatica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via dei Taurini 19, 00185, Roma, Italy;2. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy;3. Research Value s.r.l., Research Value, Via Michelangelo Tilli 39, 00156, Roma, Italy;1. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium;2. Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) and Dept. MSI, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;1. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland;2. West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland;1. Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University of Hamburg, Esplanade 36, 20354 Hamburg, Germany;2. Department of Economics, Bogazici University, Bebek, Istanbul 34342, Turkey;3. Department of Economics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Sogutozu Cad. 43, Sogutozu, Ankara 06560, Turkey;1. Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland;2. Fintech Research Institute, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, PR China;3. School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China;4. Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China;5. Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern and University of Bern, Bern 3010, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | This study inserts in the stream of research on the perverse effects that PBRF systems can induce in the subjects evaluated. The authors’ opinion is that more often than not, it is the doubtful scientific basis of the evaluation criteria that leave room for opportunistic behaviors. The work examines the 2004–2010 Italian national research assessment (VQR) to test the lack of possible opportunistic behavior by universities in order to limit the penalization of their performance (and funding) due to the presence of scientifically unproductive professors in faculty. In particular, institutions may have favored “gift authorship” practices. The analysis thus focuses on the output of professors who were unproductive in the VQR publication window, but became productive (“new productives”) in the following five years. A number of universities show a higher than average share of publications by new productives that are in co-authorship exclusively with colleagues from the same university. Although this might be thought to reflect opportunistic behavior by universities, the empirical evidence does not support this assumption. |
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| Keywords: | PBRF Bibliometrics Research policy R&D management Italy |
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