2005-01-21
RANKINGS E PRODUTIVIDADE ACADÉMICA. Acabam de ser publicados dois interessantes artigos acerca da produtividade dos académicos na Europa e nos Estados Unidos da América. Num deles João Ricardo Faria questiona Is there a trade-off between domestic and international publications? (Journal od Socio-Economis, Vol. 34, No. 2) concluindo que "...The combination of the trade-off between domestic and international publications with the academic labor market characteristics in the US and Europe, leads to the result that the observed differences in productivity reflected by the rankings can be misleading. That is, the model allows for the existence of productive and efficient scholars even in the case their names do not appear in the rankings. The reason is that some scholars are publishing in domestic rather than in international journals, which is consistent with the incentives they face in their home countries.". No outro publicado por Christis G. Tombazos na European Economic Review (2005, Vol. 49, No.2) com o título A revisionist perspective of European research in economics re-analisa-se a metodologia recentemente adoptada para ordenar os departamentos de economia existentes na Europa no que se refere à sua capacidade de produção científica. A conclusão mais relevante é que "As expected, rankings are sensitive to the choice of journals considered. However, ranking sensitivity is considerably more pronounced with respect to changes in individual performance over time, than to the group of journals used to measure performance. " A ler, ambos!
