Minimum Representative Size in Comparing Research Performance of Universities: the Case of Medicine Faculties in Romania
Article Category: Research Paper
Published Online: Sep 27, 2018
Page range: 32 - 42
Received: Jun 27, 2018
Accepted: Aug 27, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2018-0013
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© 2018 Xiaoling Liu, Mihai Păunescu, Viorel Proteasa, Jinshan Wu, published by Sciendo
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Purpose
The main goal of this study is to provide reliable comparison of performance in higher education. In this respect, we use scientometric measures associated with faculties of medicine in the six health studies universities in Romania.
Design/methodology/approach
The method to estimate the minimum necessary size, proposed in in Shen et al. (2017), is applied in this article. We collected data from the Scopus data-base for the academics of the departments of medicine within the six health studies universities in Romania during the 2009 to 2014. And two kind of statistic treatments based on that method are implemented, pair-wise comparison and one-to-the-rest comparison. All the results of these comparisons are shown.
Findings
According to the results: We deem that Cluj and Tg. Mureş have the superior and inferior performance respectively, since their reasonably small value of the minimum representative size, in either of the kinds of comparison, whichever indexes of citations,
Research limitations
There is only six faculties of medicine in health studies universities in Romania are analyzed.
Practical implications
Our methods of comparison play an important role in ranking data sets associated with different collective units, such as faculties, universities, institutions, based on some aggregate scores like mean and totality.
Originality/value
We applied the minimum representative size to a new emprical context—that of the departments of medicine in the health studies universities in Romania.