Italy is the single largest country in Continental Europe to have adopted a regular and
mandatory research assessment approach, involving all researchers at universities and …

A performance-based research funding system (PRFS) is a nationwide incentive scheme
that promotes and rewards university research performance through competition for …

Governments and organizations design performance-based research funding systems
(PBRFS) for strategic aims, such as to selectively allocate scarce resources and stimulate …

The goal of this paper is to contribute toward bridging the gap between policy design and
implementation by focusing on domains, such as education, healthcare and community …

The study of national research assessment exercises serves to evaluate the effectiveness of
policies versus their objectives and to improve the formulation of future initiatives. The aim of …

Performance‐based research funding systems (PBRFS) have been introduced in many
countries for allocating funding to research institutions. There continues to be considerable …

The introduction of performance-based research funding systems (PBRFS) in many
countries has generated new information on their impacts. Recent research has considered …

Performance-based research funding systems (PBRFSs) have been used in selectively
distributing research funding, increasing public money accountability and efficiency. Two …

The paper takes a scientometric approach to measure the change in research productivity of
Italian academics before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. We propose a composite …

This article examines the transformation of New Zealand universities following the
introduction in 2003 of a performance‐based research fund system. The analysis, based on …