The Distribution of Research Performance Across Australian Universities, 1992-2003, and Its Implications for Higher Education Funding Models

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• We contribute to the debate on research performance by

  comparing the distribution of research inputs and outputs across

  Australian universities during 1992-2003. We have calculated annual

  Gini coefficients for various performance measures and Lorenz curves

  for the final year of the study. Various findings are evident.

  Research-input measures have remained relatively unevenly distributed

  across universities. Output measures were more evenly distributed

  and this exhibited a gradual and rather consistent decline through

  time, supporting the view that the research output is being generated

  gradually more equally across Australia���s universities. Excluding

  the "Group of Eight" (Go8) universities, results in a more even

  distribution of performance. However, in 2003 this group took the

  lion���s share of research inputs but produced a smaller share of outputs.

  Our findings are relevant to current funding policy discussion.

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•   O'Brien, Martin
•   Ville, Simon

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• 2005

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