sensitive to time, and always in change, whereas count data are easier to obtain and
relatively stable. Moreover, to consider research quality, we also include indicators
such as TOPESI in NEAM disciplines and SSCI in HSS disciplines in the system.
3.2 Status and Change of Research Inputs in 211Us
This section mainly contains three parts as follow. First, we analyze the status and
change of university research inputs in the full sample. Second, we divide the full
sample into two subsamples of 985Us and non-985Us, to do further comparisons.
Third, we divide the full sample by university location into eastern, central and
western, and do further comparisons. Meanwhile, considering that Chinese higher
education resources are much more agglomerated at the Jing-Jin-Ji areas and
Hu-Su-Zhe areas inside eastern China, we subdivide eastern China according to this
criteria, and do further comparisons. In each part of analysis, we present the status
and change of research inputs in NEAM disciplines and HSS disciplines of 211Us
respectively.
Disciplines 5.1.1 Overall Change of Research Productivity of 211NEAM
in 211Us
3.2.1.1 NEAM Disciplines
We present status and change of research inputs in NEAM disciplines of full sample
by statistics of sum, university average, coefficient of variation. See Table3.3for
details.
From Table3.3, we can obtain threefindings. (1) The indicator of National Key
Disciplines (NK Disciplines) is relatively stable, since the MOE evaluation on
university key disciplines was launched only one time in 2006 during thefive-year
period of 2006–2010. Thus, the university average of NK Disciplines is 6.21 in
2006, and isfixed at 7 hereafter. (2) To the four Human Input indicators such as
Cheung Kong Scholars (CK Scholars), T&R Staff, there is a steadily rising trend
during 2006–2010. (3) To the two Financial Input indicators, R&D Grants and
R&D Grants per capita, there is also a steadily rising trend during 2006–2010.
From the perspective of differences between university inputs, some indicators
such as high-level human resource indicators (namely, CK Scholars and JQ
scholars), National Key Disciplines (NK Disciplines), and R&D Grants, have a
much larger coefficient of variation. While to some general human inputs (namely,
T&R Staff, T&R Staff with Senior Title), andfinancial input controlled for uni-
versity scale (namely R&D Grants per capita), their coefficients of variation are
relatively small. Besides, the coefficient of variation of each indicator is decreasing
year by year.
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