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PAPERBACK price:$64.25 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles International Benchmarking of US Materials Science and Engineering Research International Benchmarking of US Mathematics Research Other Related Titles Experiments in International Benchmarking of U.S. Research Fields (2000) National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (SEM) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "6 Conclusion." Experiments in International Benchmarking of U.S. Research Fields. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000. Please select a format: Page 27   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. 6 CONCLUSION On the basis of experiments in mathematics, immunology, and materials science and engineering, COSEPUP concludes that international benchmarking by panels of experts can provide an efficient and reasonably objective means of assessing the world leadership status of the United States in research fields. The committee suggests further that such assessments can be completed in a timely fashion and at reasonable cost. Such a technique might be useful to policy-makers and federal agencies in evaluating their leadership status in research programs (for example, to comply with the GPRA). In summary, benchmarking seems well suited to Assessing whether US researchers in a field are among or behind the world leaders or are the world leader and determining the leadership status of the United States in particular subfields. Identifying institutional and human-resources factors that are crucial to maintaining leadership status in a field. Page 27 Front Matter (R1-R10) Executive Summary (1-3) 1 Introduction (4-8) 2 Methodology (9-12) 3 Results of the Benchmarking Experiments (13-19) 4 Findings (20-23) 5 Discussion (24-26) 6 Conclusion (27-28) Appendix A: Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy: Member and Staff Biographical Information (29-36) Appendix B: Excerpts from National Academies Reports (37-48) Appendix C: Workshop on International Benchmarking of US Research (49-58) Attachment I: International Benchmarking of US Mathematics Research (59-126) Attachment II: International Benchmarking of US Materials Science and Engineering Research (127-248) Attachment III: International Benchmarking of US Immunology Research (249-306)

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