A Study on the Research Performance Evaluation Model of University Departments and Its Empirical Research

As the major source and the primary impetus behind the S&T innovation, colleges and universities play a distinctive and important role in the national innovation system. To evaluate the research performance based on scientometric and bibliometric methods is an important part of universities' R&D management and also an essential aspect of the researches of scientometrics and bibliometrics. On the basis of the classification results of academic journals of Research Center for China Science Evaluation at Wuhan University, we define the non-academic journals and papers as the negative output (or input) indicators in assessing research performance; and the input-output indicators for the evaluation of research performance of universities are set up accordingly. The relative efficiency of research performance is evaluated with super-efficiency data envelopment analysis (SE-DEA) model, and the empirical study of 10 schools of a university is carried out with field survey data. The result shows that the assessment model based on SE-DEA not only can be used to evaluate the relative efficiency and the performance of research performance for different schools or universities, but also may be applied to set up the benchmark of R&D management for universities.