Scientific Productivity: The Effectiveness of Research Groups in Six Countries.

Abstract

List of exhibits Foreword by Unesco Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. The International comparative study on the organization and performance of research units: an overview Y. de Hemptinne and Frank M. Andrews 2. The international study: its data sources and measurement procedures Frank M. Andrews Part II. Organization Factors and Scientific Performance: 3. Individual publication productivity as a social position effect in academic and industrial research units Karin D. Knorr, Roland Mittermeir, Georg Aichholzer and Georg Waller 4. Leadership and group performance: a positive relationship in academic research units Karin D. Knorr, Roland Mittermeir, Georg Aichholzer, and Georg Waller 5. Externally determined resources and the effectiveness of research units Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen 6. Some problems of research planning: data from Hungary compared to other Round 1 countries Agnes Haraszthy and Lajos Szanto 7. Patterns of influence and the performance of research units Salomea Kowalewska 8. The size and age of Swedish academic research groups and their scientific performance Rikard Stankiewicz 9. Communication between and within research units Nicole Visart 10. Motivation, diversity and the performance of research units Frank M. Andrews Part III. Methodological Reports: 11. Ratings of research-unit performance Joseph Bonmariage, Edmond Legros and Michel Vessiere: 12. The analysis strategy of the Hungarian research team and some results on R and D facilities Peter Hunya, Arpad Halasz and Csaba Fajszi 13. Classifying research units by patterns of performance and influence: a typology of the Round 1 data Gerald A. Cole 14. Estimating the construct validity and correlated error components of the rated-effectiveness measures Frank M. Andrews Appendix.