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The F-measure for Research Priority

Ronald Rousseau

Ronald Rousseau

  • University of Antwerp, Faculty of Social SciencesAntwerp, Belgium
  • KU Leuven Facultair Onderzoekscentrum ECOOMLeuven, Belgium
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13 mar 2018
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Categoria dell'articolo: Research Paper
Pubblicato online: 13 mar 2018
Pagine: 1 - 18
Ricevuto: 01 nov 2017
Accettato: 25 dic 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2018-0001
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Purpose

In this contribution we continue our investigations related to the activity index (AI) and its formal analogs. We try to replace the AI by an indicator which is better suited for policy applications.

Design/methodology/approach

We point out that fluctuations in the value of the AI for a given country and domain are never the result of that country’s policy with respect to that domain alone because there are exogenous factors at play. For this reason we introduce the F-measure. This F-measure is nothing but the harmonic mean of the country’s share in the world’s publication output in the given domain and the given domain’s share in the country’s publication output.

Findings

The F-measure does not suffer from the problems the AI does.

Research limitations

The indicator is not yet fully tested in real cases.

R&D policy management

In policy considerations, the AI should better be replaced by the F-measure as this measure can better show the results of science policy measures (which the AI cannot as it depends on exogenous factors).

Originality/value

We provide an original solution for a problem that is not fully realized by policy makers.

Lingua:
Inglese
Frequenza di pubblicazione:
4 volte all'anno
Argomenti della rivista:
Informatica, Tecnologia informatica, Project Management, Base dati e data mining
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