McManus, R., Mumford, K. and Sechel, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-8653-3443 (2022) Measuring research excellence amongst economics lecturers in the UK. Bulletin of Economic Research, 74 (2). pp. 386-404. ISSN 0307-3378
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Bulletin of Economic Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | REF; gender; selection; outputs; quality; inclusivity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2021 06:45 |
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2023 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/boer.12299 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176109 |