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The Research criterion

Measuring the values of the indicator A1:Research quality

This indicator aims to measure the quality of the performed research, compared with the mean quality of all of the World research. It is internationally admitted that the quality of a given published article can be measured by the number of citations it receives. To quantify this, it is usual to consider one of the three following indicators: the 3-years citations indicator, the 5-years citations indicators and the 10-years citations indicator.

Measuring the values of the indicator A2:Research performance

This indicator aims to measure the research performances of the faculty members for a given period.

Measuring the values of the indicator A3:Research volume

This indicator aims to measure the volume of the research production of the faculty members. As for the indicator A2, we shall consider periods of three (3) years.This indicator is not size dimensioned and, ‘‘theoretically’’, advantages big universities.

Measuring the values of the indicator A4:Rate of growth for research quality

This indicator aims to measure the progress done in the recent years for what concerns the quality of the performed research. This indicator is by far the most difficult one to compute and it may be calculated in more than one way.

For each publication, the expected number of citations to be credited to the institution under consideration is obtained by multiplying the institution’s share of the publication by the impact factor of the journal where the publication was made:

If technical difficulties are encountered in performing the calculations according to formula (1st choice), as it seems that a special software needs to be devised to deal with it, we shall use the following alternate formula (2nd choice):

If technical difficulties are still encountered in performing the calculations according to formula (2nd choice), because of the needed data for the 10 years prior to the ranking year, we shall use the following alternate formula (3nd choice):

Measuring the values of the indicator A5:Rate of growth for research performance

This indicator aims to measure the progress done in a 3 years period for what concerns the research performances of the faculty members.

Measuring the values of the indicator A6:Patents

Here too, we use the fractional credit counting, i.e.: if an institution shares a patent with others, it will be credited only with the fraction corresponding to its share.

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