Measuring Scientific Input and Output: Proposing Designs
Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Tahereh Bozorg Bigdeli
Journal of Information & Systems Management, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jism/2018/8/4/115-122
Link: http://www.dline.info/jism/fulltext/v8n4/jismv8n4_1.pdf
Abstract:
Investment in R & D leads to the growth of nations. Countries which spends considerable amount of money for R &D are likely to get both direct and indirect benefits. Thus investments in Science is seen as the indication of knowledge production and growth of a country. Measuring the money invested in science and output is not always easy. The main issue is that, finding the output in research and development is a complex process. In industries it is an easy task to measure the input and correlate with the output. Science is not equivalent to industry in measuring the input and output. In science
measurement systems, the document output is used as a yardstick. Since financial inputs play crucial role in progress of R&D systems, taking them in account when calculating the efficacy of this system will provide us with clearer image of R&D
performance. The current paper intends to address the monetary issues in the research and development process to provide an optimum financial model. To achieve the objective, we try to find the cost, expenses and output and correlate with suitable
products. We produce data on papers, citations and other impact and selected a particicular institution which has a good
number of students and faculty. The selected instituion has a network of universities in Iran.