caa a22 4500 445348143 CHVBK 20180317142835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0355-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0355-4 The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems [Elektronische Daten] [Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco D'Angelo] An increasing number of nations allocate public funds to research institutions on the basis of rankings obtained from national evaluation exercises. Therefore, in non-competitive higher education systems where top scientists are dispersed among all the universities, rather than concentrated among a few, there is a high risk of penalizing those top scientists who work in lower-performance universities. Using a 5year bibliometric analysis conducted on all Italian universities active in the hard sciences from 2004 to 2008, this work analyzes the distribution of publications and relevant citations by scientists within the universities, measures the research performance of individual scientists, quantifies the intensity of concentration of top scientists at each university, provides performance rankings for the universities, and indicates the effects of selective funding on the top scientists of low-ranked universities. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Performance-based research funding nationallicence Research assessment exercises nationallicence Performance variability nationallicence University nationallicence Bibliometrics nationallicence Top scientists nationallicence Italy nationallicence Abramo Giovanni National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy aut Cicero Tindaro Laboratory for Studies of Research and Technology Transfer, School of Engineering, Department of Management, University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut D'Angelo Ciriaco Laboratory for Studies of Research and Technology Transfer, School of Engineering, Department of Management, University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/3(2011-06-01), 641-654 0138-9130 87:3<641 2011 87 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0355-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0355-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abramo Giovanni National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cicero Tindaro Laboratory for Studies of Research and Technology Transfer, School of Engineering, Department of Management, University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- D'Angelo Ciriaco Laboratory for Studies of Research and Technology Transfer, School of Engineering, Department of Management, University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 87/3(2011-06-01), 641-654 0138-9130 87:3<641 2011 87 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer