RT Generic
T1 The impact of classification systems in the evaluation of the research performance of the Leiden Ranking Universities
A1 Perianes-Rodríguez, Antonio
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB In this paper, we investigate the consequences of choosing different classification systems – namely, the way publications (or journals) are assigned to scientific fields– for the ranking of research units. We study the impact of this choice on the ranking of 500 universities in the 2013 edition of the Leiden Ranking in two cases. Firstly, we compare a Web of Science journal-level classification system,consisting of 236 subject categories, and a publication-level algorithmically constructed system, denoted G8, consisting of 5,119 clusters. The result is that the consequences of the move from theWoS to the G8 system using the Top 1% citation impact indicator are much greater than the consequences of this move using the Top 10% indicator. In the second place, we compare the G8 classification system and a publication-level alternative of the same family, the G6 system, consisting of 1,363 clusters. The result is that, although less important than in the previous case, the consequences of the move from the G6 to the G8 system under the Top 1% indicator are still of alarge order of magnitude.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2016
FD 2016-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22147
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/22147
LA eng
NO This research project builds on earlier work started by Antonio Perianes-Rodriguez during a research visit to the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University as awardee of José Castillejo grant, CAS15/00178, funded by the Spanish MEC. Ruiz-Castillo is a visiting researcher at CWTS and gratefully acknowledges CWTS for the use of its data. Ruiz-Castillo acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MEC through grant ECO2014-55953-P, as well as grant MDM 2014-0431 to his Departamento de Economía.
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