Research evaluation has many practical uses. For example universities take an applicant's research quality into account when hiring staff and also, higher education funding bodies distribute their public funds to universities according to the quality of research carried out by the staff of those institutions. Currently, the higher education funding bodies appoint a panel of experts that awards research quality scores to different departments by taking into account all the evidence that is presented to them. The aim of this project is do develop an objective formula that would evaluate the quality of a professor's research by taking many different factors such as citation rates, number of papers published and IEEE paper awards into account. In order to develop an accurate formula a survey is designed so as to compare the importance of different indicators of quality of research. This survey will be filled out online by professors from Melbourne University and from elsewhere around the world and the results will be analyzed in order to find the most accurate formula for evaluating research.

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Igor Bjelobrk, Professor Moshe Zukerman