Performance-based university research funding systems

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A walk on the wild side: ‘Predatory’ journals and information asymmetries in scientific evaluations (2019, background): “On the flip side, they may provide an inaccurate measure of quality and they may encourage agents to game the incentive system (Hicks, 2012).”
Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “Hicks (2012) for a few other countries that also use citation scores in their evaluation systems.”
Hop to it! The impact of organization type on innovation response time to the COVID-19 crisis (2020, background): “Eventually, the tensions between the university governance and scientists lead to less economic relevance of research (Hicks, 2012).”
Bias against Novelty in Science: A Cautionary Tale for Users of Bibliometric Indicators (2017, positive): “In addition, funding agencies increasingly rely on bibliometric indicators to aid in decision making and performance evaluation (Butler, 2003; Hicks, 2012; Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke, & Rafols, 2015).”