Using Publications Counts to Measure an Institution's Research Productivity

By R. Toutkoushian, Stephen R. Porter, Cherry Danielson, P. Hollis. 2003

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A network DEA quantity and quality-orientated production model: An application to Australian university research services (2016, background): “Elsewhere, [32] measured the research productivity of universities in the US using total publications and the ratio of publications to full-time faculty, but the approach was nonetheless essentially quantitative and excluded any specific qualitative measure.”
Measuring University Quality (2005, background): “Evidence of the narrow frame of reference for these indicators can also be found in the very high correlation between an institution’s total publications (as measured by ISI) and its total federal research expenditures (Toutkoushian et al., 2003).”
A Model for Doctoral Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Written Feedback for Academic Writing (2011, background): “A measure of research productivity of an institution as well as an individual is the quality and quantity of publications ( Toutkoushian et al. 2003 ).”
The Past, Present, and Future of University Rankings (2011, methodology): “Among these three methods, the number of publications perhaps best represents the quantity (and not quality) of research productivity, although there is a quality dimension to publication counts as well because research must pass through a peer review process ( Toutkoushian et al. 2003 ).”