Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz

Economic research in Switzerland
Figure 1.3: Economic research output of the six Swiss universities (modified)
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Own calculations: moving two year averages of the research output in journals that
were covered by EconLit already in 1990 (according to the weighting CL)
at the cost of other publication media. In order to eliminate the influence of journal
proliferation, we excluded all articles from our calculations that were published in journals
that did not yet exist in 1990 or were not covered by EconLit at that time. Figure 1.3
depicts the modified development of the research output of the six universities.
The research output displayed in Figure 1.3 is, of course, lower than the research output
displayed in Figure 1.1. The development patterns are however quite similar.
1.4.2 Quality and Quantity
The level of research activity (FX) is determined by the number of author-pages published
(F XS) and the average quality of the publications (DQ): F X = F XS ∗ DQ. Average
research quality DQ is thus defined as follows:
DQ =
F X
F XS
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The development of the average quality of research produced (DQ) at the six universities
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