The solitude of stars. An analysis of the distributed excellence model of European universities

被引：14
作者：
Bonaccorsi, Andrea [1 ,2 ]
Haddawy, Peter [3 ]
Cicero, Tindaro [4 ]
Saeed-Ul Hassan [5 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Pisa, DESTEC, Sch Engn, Pisa, Italy
[2] Fdn Bruno Kessler, IRVAPP FBK, Res Inst Evaluat Publ Policies, Trento, Italy
[3] Mahidol Univ, Fac ICT, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand
[4] ANVUR Natl Agcy Evaluat Univ & Res Inst, I-00153 Rome, Italy
[5] Informat Technol Univ, Lahore 54770, Pakistan
来源：
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS | 2017年 / 11卷 / 02期
关键词：
Higher education; Transatlantic gap; Research excellence; Europe; IMPACT; PERFORMANCE; SCIENTISTS; EDUCATION; SKEWNESS; SCIENCE;
D O I：
10.1016/j.joi.2017.02.003
中图分类号：
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号：
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要：
The paper addresses the issue of the transatlantic gap in research excellence between Europe and USA by examining the performance of individual universities. It introduces a notion of leadership in research excellence by combining a subjective definition of excellence with an objective one. It applies this definition to a novel dataset disaggregated for 251 Subject Categories, covering the 2007-2010 period, based on Scopus data. The paper shows that European universities are able to show excellence only in a few disciplinary areas each, while US universities are able to excel across the board. It explains this difference in terms of institutional differences in recruitment process and governance of universities. It discusses the European model of distributed excellence in terms of the recent rise of input competition. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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页码：435 / 454
页数：20
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