Abstract
Does devoting more academic research resources promote academic quality? This study aims to examine the influence of higher education R&D expenditure (HERD) on academic quality measured by the relative citation impact (RCI). Both the ordered Probit and panel data models are employed to implement the empirical estimation, the cross-country evidence suggests that an increase in academic R&D is positively related to academic quality. The further analyses on different academic disciplines show the HERD is more relevant to science publications. This finding is robust for various specifications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 109-123 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Scientometrics |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Oct 2014 |
Keywords
- Academic quality
- Ordered probit model
- Relative citation impact