Do Rankings Drive Better Performance?

Do we "drive" dyspnoea?

Affiliations: Neuroscience Research Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Paris, France. INSERM, UMR_S 1158, Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service des Explorations Fonctionnelles de la Respir...

Do nurses do it better?

Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings

A rich and diverse set of potential bibliometric and scientometric predictors of research performance quality and importance are emerging today — from the classic metrics (publication counts, journal impact factors and individual article/author citation counts) to promising new online metrics such as download counts, hub/authority scores and growth/decay chronometrics. In and of themselves, how...

IDN rankings and performance: a comment

The authors examine the increasingly recognized SMG top 100 list in an attempt to determine whether a system’s ranking (by SMG) as an integrated system correlates with system performance. At the heart of this study are two key assumptions: 1) that the SMG ranking methodology is valid and 2) that the entities included in the ranking are indeed integrated health networks. We briefly address each ...

Do Campaigns Drive Partisan Turnout?

Although campaign strategy often, and perhaps increasingly, emphasizes the mobilization of core supporters, we know little about whether campaigns affect the partisan complexion of the electorate. We examine whether the balance of Democratic and Republican voters depends on the balance of campaign activity, the popularity of the incumbent president, and the state of the economy. Drawing on time...