How should we rate research?: Counting number of publications may be best research performance measure

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Bruce G Charlton (bruce.charlton@ncl.ac.uk), editor in chief, Medical Hypotheses,
Peter Andras, reader in complex systems and computational intelligence

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU

EDITOR—The debate about how to replace the UK research assessment exercise is confused.1 For example, the numbers of publications and citations are research output measures while research council funding and numbers of academic and research staff are input measures.

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