Auditing the Auditors: An evaluation of the REF2021 research evaluation exercise
Oliver Linton, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge Emily Xu, University of Cambridge
Volume 2 nos.1 December 2022 ISSN 2755-3272
Keywords
Journal quality,Ranking,Research funding
Abstract
We apply the Hole algorithm to evaluate the REF2021 output quality exercise. We find that the implied journal ranking agrees quite closely with the ABS-SCOB journal ranking, and in particular the GPA’s agree with a 91% correlation.