Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90054 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7739
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield similar results. It would suggest, for instance, that less costly bibliometric evaluation might - at least partly - replace informed peer review, or that bibliometric evaluation could reliably monitor research in between assessment exercises. We draw on our experience of evaluating Italian research in Economics, Business and Statistics, where almost 12,000 publications dated 2004-2010 were assessed. A random sample from the available population of journal articles shows that informed peer review and bibliometric analysis produce similar evaluations of the same set of papers. Whether because of independent convergence in assessment, or the influence of bibliometric information on the community of reviewers, the implication for the organization of these exercises is that these two approaches are substitutes.
Subjects: 
research assessment
peer review
bibliometric evaluation
VQR
JEL: 
I23
C80
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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