Reforming Science Evaluation and Funding when Starting from a Low Performance Level
Reforming Science Evaluation and Funding when Starting from a Low Performance Level

Author(s): Štěpán Jurajda
Subject(s): Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Science evaluation; Science policies; Funding systems; Czech Republic;
Summary/Abstract: Many post-communist countries recently enjoyed rapid economic convergence towards their Western European counterparts, but there has been surprisingly little convergence in scientific research performance. In 2015 only about 3% of the European Research Council’s (ERC) Starting Grants originated from the EU’s new members. As demonstrated by, e.g., Jurajda et al. (2016), the post-soviet countries of Europe are still lagging far behind in terms of high-quality academic output, in particular in social and medical sciences, which are critical for the quality of local governance on many policy levels. Post-communist countries’ publication output is also heavily focused on quantity as opposed to quality. In short, bibliometric evidence implies that several fields of science in these countries are consistently unable to catch up to EU-15 (world-level) scientific standards.

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