Measuring research excellence amongst economics Lecturers in the UK.

TY - UNPB

T1 - Measuring research excellence amongst economics Lecturers in the UK.

AU - McManus, Richard

AU - Mumford, Karen Ann

AU - Sechel, Cristina

PY - 2021/3

Y1 - 2021/3

N2 - Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics Lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these Lecturers were submitted to REF2014; 57% of men and 46% of women. The decision making of Institutions is found to be well approximated by a simplified selection approach; focusing on working papers and higher quality journal publications. Our results also reveal sizeable conditional differences in the probability of selection, especially so in departments with higher research rankings. More than half of the variance in selection probability remains unexplained, revealing considerable idiosyncrasies in the management of submissions and uncertainty across the discipline in this research assessment process.

AB - Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics Lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these Lecturers were submitted to REF2014; 57% of men and 46% of women. The decision making of Institutions is found to be well approximated by a simplified selection approach; focusing on working papers and higher quality journal publications. Our results also reveal sizeable conditional differences in the probability of selection, especially so in departments with higher research rankings. More than half of the variance in selection probability remains unexplained, revealing considerable idiosyncrasies in the management of submissions and uncertainty across the discipline in this research assessment process.

UR - http://ftp.iza.org/dp14156.pdf

M3 - Discussion paper

T3 - IZA Discussion Paper Series

SP - 1

EP - 29

BT - Measuring research excellence amongst economics Lecturers in the UK.

ER -