[Assessment of research papers in medical university staff evaluation].
Medical university staff evaluation is a substantial branch of education administration for medical university. Output number of research papers as a direct index reflecting the achievements in academic research, plays an important role in academic research evaluation. Another index, influence of the research paper, is an indirect index for academic research evaluation. This paper mainly introduced some commonly used indexes in evaluation of academic research papers currently, and analyzed the applicability and limitation of each index. The author regards that academic research evaluation in education administration, which is mainly based on evaluation of academic research papers, should combine the evaluation of journals where the papers are published with peer review of the papers, and integrate qualitative evaluation with quantitative evaluation, for the purpose of setting up an objective academic research evaluation system for medical university staff.
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China. zhouqinghui@sohu.com
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D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008503:Medical Staff; D008611:Mentors