Research Assessment Exercise 1992;

Measuring research quality: the United Kingdom Government's Research Assessment Exercise

Received: 22 June 2008 Accepted: 21 August 2008 Abstract Can research quality be measured meaningfully? Whether it can or not does not interfere with the desire to do so if the motivation is strong enough. This paper discusses the United Kingdom (U.K.) Government’s approach to measuring research quality in U.K. universities, known in the U.K. as the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The RAE i...

Productivity of research on diabetes between 1992 and 2002 scanty of research in developing countries

Background: Diabetes is a worldwide problem nowadays. The present study was designed to assess the productivity of research on diabetes and to evaluate the gap between the burden of diabetes and research on diabetes, in both developed and developing countries. Materials and methods: An extensive search in PubMed database for diabetes publications, using diabetes as the Mesh term, was carried o...

The first Italian research assessment exercise: A bibliometric perspective

In December 2003, seventeen years after the first UK research assessment exercise, Italy started up its first-ever national research evaluation, with the aim to evaluate, using the peer review method, the excellence of the national research production. The evaluation involved 20 disciplinary areas, 102 research structures, 18,500 research products and 6,661 peer reviewers (1,465 from abroad); i...

Research in Action, AANA Journal, August 1992

The Research in Action segment of the AANA Annual Meeting program was inaugurated in 1984 under the sponsorship of Critikon, which has continued its generous support on behalf of the original research of associate members (students) and CRNAs. Each year, CRNA content experts do a blind reiiew' of the papers submitted for consideration and select the 12 best for presentation at the Annual Meetin...

Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music)