"research indicator" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most commonly used in academic and scientific writing to refer to a measure or tool used to track or measure research progress or outcomes. Example: "The use of citation counts as a research indicator has been debated in the academic community."
As well as being easy to manipulate as a research indicator, patents are a poor metric because they are no longer an important indicator of innovation in fast-moving areas like ICT.
The implementation of a full research programme occurs only in Sweden and Lithuania, although Poland has a full programme for crop research (indicator 25).
The groups agreed that the easiest way to measure research performance was to determine the number of 'research points' for each agreed research indicator or activity.
The research team comprises experienced clinical, organisational and social science researchers, with experience in health services research, quality improvement research, organisational behaviour, survey design, statistical modelling, accreditation research, indicator development, external evaluation and clinical practice.
For those countries which reported a total amount spent on health research (Indicator 10), there was a clear gradient according to HDI, with the highest amount of funding in the highest HDI country of each region.
She combines experience in quality of care research (indicator development and implementation, improving quality of care, changing behavior of professionals) with experience in research in pain and palliative care.
Research performance assessments have proliferated, but research indicators for use amongst clinicians in poorly resourced countries have been ill-defined.
Engaging local clinical researchers, as we have done, in the process of determining research indicators engenders buy-in and ensures local context and values are acknowledged in the assessment methodology [ 23].
Decreases in funding do not only affect QS's research indicators.
Then, based on opinions of 33 experts, and assessing their suggestions, research indicators were finalized.
As any tool developed by research, indicators must be elaborated according to a scientific approach.
