Bibliometric indicators of university research performance in Flanders

✍ Scribed by Van den Berghe, Herman ;Houben, Josee A. ;de Bruin, Renger E. ;Moed, Henk F. ;Kint, André ;Luwel, Marc ;Spruyt, Eric H. J.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1998)49:1<59::aid-asi8>3.0.co;2-2

✦ Synopsis

During the past few years, bibliometric studies were con-policy. Both limit the possibilities for financing scientific ducted on research performance at three Flemish uniresearch. In Belgium, universities receive a basic allowversities: The University of Ghent, the Catholic University ance in order to organize education and to provide basic of Leuven, and the University of Antwerp. Longitudinal research facilities. In spite of a significant increase in the analyses of research input, publication output, and imnumber of university students, the basic allowance had pact covering a time span of 12 years were made of been decreasing in real terms since 1975. Partly as the hundreds of research departments. This article outlines the general methodology used during these studies, and result of the rigid personnel structure, the allocation of presents the main outcomes with respect to the faculties funds for research lessened consistently. In this situation, of medicine, science, and pharmaceutical science at the evaluating research became imperative. The restructuring three universities involved. It focuses on the reactions of the university system, resulting from the constitutional of the researchers working in these faculties and of the reform of the Belgian state, reinforced this need even university evaluation authorities on the studies.