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Drittmittel als Performanzindikator der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung zum Einfluss von Rahmenbedingungen auf Forschungsleistung

Third party research funding and performance in research. On the effects or institutional conditions on research performance of teams

In English

Författare

  • Dorothea Jansen
  • Andreas Wald
  • Karola Franke
  • Ulrich Schmoch
  • Torben Schubert

Summary, in English

Resources within and between higher education and research institutions are increasingly allocated according to scientific performance. Evaluation exercises and the measurement of research performance take on a new role in this context. Third party research income is a performance indicator which is rather easy to measure and is used in most of the new performance-based evaluation procedures. This paper sets out to scrutinize the meaning and validity of third party research income. We studied research teams from three different research fields with a mixed quantitative / qualitative approach. The focus is on the causal relations between institutional / input indicators, third party research income as another input indicator, and a variety of output indicators of scientific production. An important result is that third party money has a positive effect on performance only below a certain and discipline-specific threshold. Further analysis shows that output performance is to a great extent field-specific. The context conditions for scientific production differ greatly, so that comparative performance assessments are only valid within homogeneous research fields. Another important result is that output performance is multidimensional and cannot be measured by bibliometric indicators only. These findings have implications for the rationality of the evaluation assessment exercises as well as for the funding decisions of science foundations, ministries of science and - increasingly, the heads of universities and departments. These topics are discussed in the last chapter as well as the implications for further research.

Publiceringsår

2007-03

Språk

Tyska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Volym

59

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Forschungsinstitut fur Soziologie

Ämne

  • Economics and Business

Nyckelord

  • Evaluation
  • Optimal size of research teams
  • Peer review
  • Performance of research teams
  • Science indicators
  • Science policy
  • Third party funding
  • incentive
  • performance measurement
  • governance
  • research organization

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0023-2653