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The citation impact of articles from which authors gained monetary rewards based on journal metrics

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SCIENTOMETRICS
卷 126, 期 6, 页码 4941-4974

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-03944-9

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Research articles; Citation impact; Journal metrics; Monetary rewards; Web of Science

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  1. Human Capital Operational Program 2014-2020
  2. European Social Fund [POCU/380/6/13/124708, 37141/23.05.2019]

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Monetary rewards based on per-publication are an important policy instrument to stimulate scientific research, but some reward schemes exhibit inconsistency. The study found that while PR3 articles have a uniform citation impact within their journals, over two thirds of the rewarded papers are below the world average in their field on a global scale.
Monetary rewards granted on a per-publication basis to individual authors are an important policy instrument to stimulate scientific research. An inconsistent feature of many article reward schemes is that they use journal-level citation metrics. In this paper we assess the actual article-level citation impact of about 10,000 articles whose authors received financial rewards within the Romanian Program for Rewarding Research Results (PR3), an exemplary money-per-publication program that uses journal metrics to allocate rewards. We present PR3, offer a comprehensive empirical analysis of its results and a scientometric critique of its methodology. We first use a reference dataset of 1.9 million articles to compare the impact of each rewarded article from five consecutive PR3 editions to the impact of all the other articles published in the same journal and year. To determine the wider global impact of PR3 papers we then further benchmark their citation performance against the worldwide field baselines and percentile rank classes from the Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We find that within their journals PR3 articles span the full range of citation impact almost uniformly. In the larger context of global broad fields of science almost two thirds of the rewarded papers are below the world average in their field and more than a third lie below the world median. Although desired by policymakers to exemplify excellence many PR3 articles are characterized by a rather commonplace individual citation performance and have not achieved the impact presumed and rewarded after publication based on journal metrics. Furthermore, identical rewards have been offered to articles with markedly different impact. Direct monetary incentives for articles may support productivity but they cannot guarantee impact.

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