How efficient are universities at publishing research? A data envelopment analysis of Spanish state universities

Expósito-García, Alfonso and Velasco-Morente, Francisco How efficient are universities at publishing research? A data envelopment analysis of Spanish state universities. El profesional de la información, 2018, vol. 27, n. 5, pp. 1108-1115. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The level of efficiency regarding the production of published scientific research in 2015 for the 48 state universities of the Spanish education system is assessed. It is used a methodological approach based on output specifications of desirable outputs (total amount of published papers in Q1 journals) and undesirable outputs (non-cited publications). Relative measures are obtained under two efficiency schemes, natural and managerial. Results enable to identify certain management strategies to improve overall efficiency at publishing research of the Spanish university system. A higher allocation of budget resources among certain institutions would lead to efficiency gains for the system as a whole.

Spanish abstract

¿Cuán eficientes son las universidades en la publicación de investigación? Un análisis envolvente. Se evalúa el nivel de eficiencia en la publicación de trabajos de investigación en las 48 universidades públicas del sistema español de educación superior para el año 2015. El método utilizado se caracteriza por la diferenciación entre resultados deseados (total de trabajos publicados en revistas del primer cuartil) y resultados no deseados (trabajos no citados), obteniendo una medida de eficiencia relativa a partir de dos esquemas de eficiencia: natural y de gestión. Los resultados permiten identificar estrategias para mejorar la eficiencia en la publicación de trabajos de investigación del Sistema Universitario Español en su conjunto. Un aumento de recursos financieros en determinadas universidades generaría ganancias de eficiencia para el conjunto del sistema.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Research publishing; Efficiency analysis; Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis; State universities; Spain;Publicación; Investigación; Análisis de eficiencia; Evaluación comparativa; Análisis envolvente de datos; Universidades públicas; España
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
E. Publishing and legal issues.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GA. Information industry.
Depositing user: Lda. María-Jesús Iglesias-Iglesias
Date deposited: 06 Mar 2019 10:05
Last modified: 06 Mar 2019 10:05
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/34170

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