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Calculating the excellence shift: How efficiently do institutions produce highly cited papers?

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The excellence shift is proposed, which shows universities’ ability to produce highly cited papers as measured against their basic academic research efficiency. To demonstrate our approach, we use data from 50 US universities.

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  1. The data can be downloaded from http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionProfile.aspx?unitid=adafaeb2afaf.

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  1. Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539, Munich, Germany

    Lutz Bornmann

  2. Ifo Institute, Poschingerstr. 5, 81679, Munich, Germany

    Klaus Wohlrabe

  3. CSIC, Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas C/Albasanz, 26-28, 28037, Madrid, Spain

    Felix de Moya Anegon

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Bornmann, L., Wohlrabe, K. & de Moya Anegon, F. Calculating the excellence shift: How efficiently do institutions produce highly cited papers?. Scientometrics 112, 1859–1864 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2446-3

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