The Flemish Performance-based Research Funding System:A Unique Variant of the Norwegian Model

• 作者: Raf Guns Tim C.E.Engels
• 来源期刊: 数据与情报科学学报:英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: Performance-based RESEARCH FUNDING systems Flanders(Belgium) NORWEGIAN MODEL Web of Science VABB-SHW
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（4）
• 页码范围: 45-60
• 页数: 16页
• 分类号: G2

摘要

The BOF-key is the performance-based research funding system that is used in Flanders, Belgium. In this paper we describe the historical background of the system, its current design and organization, as well as its effects on the Flemish higher education landscape. The BOFkey in its current form relies on three bibliometric parameters: publications in Web of Science, citations in Web of Science, and publications in a comprehensive regional database for SSH publications. Taken together, the BOF-key forms a unique variant of the Norwegian model: while the system to a large extent relies on a commercial database, it avoids the problem of inadequate coverage of the SSH. Because the bibliometric parameters of the BOF-key are reused in other funding allocation schemes, their overall importance to the Flemish universities is substantial.