This is the first ever attempt of application in a country other than Italy of the output-to-input indicator FSS, to assess and compare the research performance of professors and universities, within and between countries. A special attention has been devoted to the presentation of the methodology developed to set up a common field classification scheme of professors, and to overcome the limited availability of comparable input data. Results of the comparison between countries, carried out in the 2011–2015 period, show similar average performances of professors, but noticeable differences in the distributions, whereby Norwegian professors are more concentrated in the tails. Norway shows notable higher performance in Mathematics and Earth and Space Sciences, while Italy in Biomedical Research and Engineering.

这是有史以来第一次在意大利以外的国家使用产出-投入指标FSS，以评估和比较国家内部和国家之间的教授和大学的研究绩效。已经特别注意介绍为建立教授的通用现场分类方案并克服可比较输入数据的有限可用性而开发的方法。在2011年至2015年期间进行的国家间比较结果显示，教授的平均表现相似，但分布差异显着，因此挪威的教授更加集中在尾巴上。挪威在数学和地球与空间科学领域的表现显着，而意大利在生物医学研究和工程领域的表现更高。