The 3rd RISIS Policymakers Session will take place on the 29th of May in an online format (2 pm – 4 pm) due to the Covid-19 emergency. RISIS will focus on European and US scientific production, with a presentation of Benedetto Lepori, of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).
A recent study titled “Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European universities” and published on PlosOne, is focused on the association between university incomes and international visibility. Researchers of USI (Università della Svizzera italiana) in collaboration with the University of Turin, have revealed a strong relationship between university revenues and their volume of publications and citations.
Scientists mapped more than 3,000 Higher Education Institutions in the US and over 2,000 in Europe. Data derived from RISIS-ETER database and from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for the US (IPEDS), as well as from CWTS Publication Database maintained by the University of Leiden.
The connection between citations and measures of resourcing as the output of international visibility is critical for policy evaluation purposes as performance-based allocation of resources represents a core element of the new ‘academic capitalism ‘paradigm.
Sumathi Subramanian, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, Policy Officer in the unit for Policy on Higher Education (European Commission), and Anne Corbet, from LSE Consulting will discuss it facing the topic Resource Allocation in Higher Education.
