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Substantiality: A Construct Indicating Research Excellence to Measure University Research Performance

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|Jul 2021

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Figure 1

Features of “substantiality” indicators.
Features of “substantiality” indicators.

Figure 2

Schematic relationships between “substantiality” and reputation.
Schematic relationships between “substantiality” and reputation.

Figure 3

Averages of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for each indicator.
Averages of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for each indicator.

Figure 4

Averages of Spearman's rank correlation coefficients for each type of indicator.
Averages of Spearman's rank correlation coefficients for each type of indicator.

Correlations between quantity, substantiality, quality indicators for the world and Japanese research universities_

# of pubsFWCI% of top 1% most cited% of top 10% most citedh5-index# of top 1% most cited
FWCI0.31
% of top 1% most cited0.310.95
% of top 10% most cited0.310.960.94
h5-index0.890.650.660.66
# of top 1% most cited0.860.680.690.690.99
# of top 10% most cited0.920.600.600.610.980.98

Correlations between substantiality indicators and FWCI in Japanese National Universities_

Scopus ASJCCorrelations between

h5-index & FWCInumber of top 1% most cited publications & FWCI
Multidisciplinary0.080.13
Agricultural and Biological Sciences−0.010.05
Arts and Humanities0.150.13
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.60 ***0.43 ***
Business, Management and Accounting0.42 ***0.22 *
Chemical Engineering0.45 ***0.38 ***
Chemistry0.29 **0.25 *
Computer Science0.140.19
Decision Sciences0.130.46 ***
Earth and Planetary Sciences0.41 ***0.26 *
Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.140.07
Energy0.58 ***0.39 ***
Engineering0.150.12
Environmental Science0.43 ***0.39 ***
Immunology and Microbiology0.060.13
Materials Science0.050.11
Mathematics0.150.24 *
Medicine0.62 ***0.57 ***
Neuroscience0.41 ***0.27 *
Nursing0.48 ***0.40 ***
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.59 ***0.39 ***
Physics and Astronomy0.40 ***0.26 *
Psychology0.090.04
Social Sciences0.190.23 *
Dentistry0.22 *0.16
Health Professions0.23 *0.26 *
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2021-0029 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 76 - 89
Submitted on: Mar 3, 2021
Accepted on: Jul 6, 2021
Published on: Jul 25, 2021
Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year

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