The Adjusted Research Excellence Index 2020 - Methodology Report
The Adjusted Research Excellence Index is a composite indicator selected by the European Research Area Council (ERAC) as the input measure to monitor country performance with respect to ERA Roadmap Priority 1, ‘Effective national research systems’ (European Commission, 2019a,b). It is obtained with the aggregation of four indicators that characterize countries’ effectiveness of research systems, in terms of scientific and technological research excellence (the “production” of high-impact publications and valued patents), and the ability of institutes to attract outstanding research grants and participate in researcher exchanges to pave the way for future excellence and develop efficient research capacity. This report describes the methodology used to compute the latest scores for 43 countries (EU Member States, Horizon 2020 Associated Countries and the United Kingdom) with the addition of EU27 and EU28 for 5 time points: 2018, 2016, 2013, 2011 and 2010. The results show that Switzerland excels in having the most effective national research system, followed by Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Most of the countries show a welcome growth of the composite score over the last period. Country ranks were found to be very robust, with uncertainty in the modeling choices having only limited impact (3-4 rank positions shifts) on the ranks of the majority of the countries.
CAPERNA Giulio;
2020-10-12
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC122029
978-92-76-22745-8 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30389 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30389-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC122029,
10.2760/352044 (online),
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