Abstract
Kent Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury,UK, CT2 7PE*Corresponding author. Email: w.b.liu@kent.ac.ukIn this work, we report on the aim, approach, design, outcomes, and issues of a major projectranking the academic impact of world national research institutes (NRIs), carried out by theChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The evaluation of national research institutes has alwaysbeen a controversial issue. Although related studies may be found in the World CompetitivenessYearbook (WCY), for example, no evaluation of the academic impact of national research insti-tutes has been carried out before. In this project, we adopted the 3E theory and soft systemmethodology (SSM) to build a tailor-made indicator system with a desirable hierarchical structurefor the academic impact evaluation of NRIs, and we carefully designed the sampling procedure.Furthermore, in this project the overall evaluation is based on separate evaluations of 21academic subjects, which is another important feature of the project.Keywords: national research institute; academic impact evaluation; 3E theory; research instituteranking.
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