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  1. The concentration/dispersal debate: Swedish higher education institutions 2008–2020

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, December 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  2. Can Large Language Models Evaluate Grant Proposal Quality? Revisiting the Wennerås and Wold Peer Review Data

    Article • Journal of Data and Information Science, September 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  3. Wennerås and Wold’s data in Nature is questioned

    Article • Quantitative Science Studies, January 2025, The MIT Press

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  4. Competitive funding is time-consuming, costly, and not accurate.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Gerald Schweiger, Dr Ulf Sandström

  5. Bibliometrically Disciplined Peer Review: on Using Indicators in Research Evaluation

    Article • Scholarly Assessment Reports, June 2020, Levy Library Press

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  6. How to measure independence in relation to your supervisor.

    Article • PLOS One, March 2019, PLOS

    Dr Ulf Sandström, prof Peter Van den Besselaar

  7. Quantity matters, but how does it work?

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  8. Studying grant decision-making: a linguistic analysis of review reports

    Article • Scientometrics, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  9. Research performance determined by level of institutional funding.

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  10. Counterintuitive effects of incentives?

    Article • Research Evaluation, September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  11. How vicious circles of gender bias leads to lower positions, and lower productivity

    Article • PLOS One, August 2017, PLOS

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  12. Do observations have any role in science policy studies? A reply

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  13. Perverse effects of output-based research funding? Butler’s Australian case revisited

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  14. Is there really a contradiction between quantity or quality in research?

    Article • PLOS One, November 2016, PLOS

    Dr Ulf Sandström, prof Peter Van den Besselaar

  15. Towards field-adjusted production: Estimating research productivity from a zero-truncated distribution

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  16. Gender differences in research performance and its impact on careers: a longitudinal case study

    Article • Scientometrics, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulf Sandström, prof Peter Van den Besselaar

  17. Early career grants, performance, and careers: A study on predictive validity of grant decisions

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström, prof Peter Van den Besselaar

  18. Defining the role of cognitive distance in the peer review process with an explorative study of a grant scheme in infection biology

    Article • Research Evaluation, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  19. Large-scale bibliometric review of diffusion research

    Article • Scientometrics, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  20. The field factor: towards a metric for academic institutions

    Article • Research Evaluation, September 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  21. Combining curriculum vitae and bibliometric analysis: mobility, gender and research performance

    Article • Research Evaluation, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  22. Research quality and diversity of funding: A model for relating research money to output of research

    Article • Scientometrics, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  23. Persistent nepotism in peer-review

    Article • Scientometrics, November 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  24. Inertia and change in Scandinavian public-sector research systems: the case of biotechnology

    Article • Science and Public Policy, December 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  25. Institutionalizing the triple helix: research funding and norms in the academic system

    Article • Research Policy, February 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Ulf Sandström

  26. Book reviews

    Article • Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ulf Sandström