Future UK RAEs to be Metrics-Based

[Sylvan Katz]

> The question at hand is a specific and purely empirical one: Is there a
> significant and sizeable correlation between RAE ranking, as currently
> determined by the RAE panels, and citation counts?

Linear correlations can be misleading see
Katz, J. S., 2006: Indicators for complex innovation systems. Research 
Policy, 35, 893-909.



Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow
SPRU, University of Sussex
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank

Adjunct Professor
Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan

Associate Researcher
Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec