caa a22 4500 44534931X CHVBK 20180317142839.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-010-0271-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-010-0271-z Impact evaluation of the voluntary early retirement policy on research and technology outputs of the faculties of science in Morocco [Elektronische Daten] [Hamid Bouabid, Mohamed Dalimi, Zayer ElMajid] Scientometric indicators or science metrics, conventional and derived ones, are used in ex-post evaluating of a government policy with impact on research system. Publications, citations, h-index, Glänzel model, and patents are applied in both micro and meso levels. This provides useful insight into the impact of the voluntary early retirement policy on research and technological outputs of the faculties of science in Morocco and consequently on the overall Morocco's research system. The use of these metrics showed that the effect of the initiative was quite limited by affecting an average of 8% of the professor staffs of these institutions. Furthermore, each professor benefiting from this initiative had produced an average of 3.7 publications indexed in SCI in all his (her) career. The few number of the publications attributed to these professors had been gradually decreasing even 6 years before the initiative. No specific scientific field had intensively been struck. The findings also support that these professors were in general more ‘author' than ‘inventor'. Inventor-professor institutions were likely more affected by the initiative. By means of these metrics, even if the initiative had not contributed to rejuvenate the professor-staffs of the faculties of science in Morocco, would nevertheless be a stimulus of their research system with respect to their scientometric indicators. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2010 Public policy nationallicence Metrics nationallicence Research and technology outputs nationallicence Evaluation nationallicence Morocco nationallicence Bouabid Hamid Directorate of Technology, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 29, Avenue Alger, Hassan, Rabat, Morocco aut Dalimi Mohamed Directorate of Technology, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 29, Avenue Alger, Hassan, Rabat, Morocco aut ElMajid Zayer Directorate of Technology, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 29, Avenue Alger, Hassan, Rabat, Morocco aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 86/1(2011-01-01), 125-132 0138-9130 86:1<125 2011 86 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0271-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-010-0271-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bouabid Hamid Directorate of Technology, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 29, Avenue Alger, Hassan, Rabat, Morocco aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dalimi Mohamed Directorate of Technology, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 29, Avenue Alger, Hassan, Rabat, Morocco aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- ElMajid Zayer Directorate of Technology, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, 29, Avenue Alger, Hassan, Rabat, Morocco aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 86/1(2011-01-01), 125-132 0138-9130 86:1<125 2011 86 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer