The impact of Performance-based Research Funding System (PRFS) has received increasing attention in recent years. However, the literature has focused on individual-level or country-level effects, mostly ignoring the ‘missing link’ between PRFSs and their effects: university managers. Drawing upon the sociology of numbers and theories of organizational translation, this article uses the concepts of actionability and legitimacy to analyse how and why managers at two Danish universities undertook local translations of a new Bibliometric Research Indicator (BRI). While scholars have emphasized how research evaluation systems can be either strong or weak by design, this study demonstrates how local managers to some extent make national systems strong or weak. The study also finds though that managers’ translations are conditioned by a range of background factors. These factors are identified as financial incentives, problem definitions, indicator competition, and identity and culture.

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缺失的环节：大学管理者如何调解基于绩效的研究资助系统的影响

基于绩效的研究资助系统（PRFS）的影响近年来受到越来越多的关注。但是，文献集中于个人或国家层面的影响，而大多数人忽略了PRFS及其影响之间的“缺失联系”：大学管理者。借助数字社会学和组织翻译理论，本文使用可操作性和合法性的概念来分析两所丹麦大学的管理者如何以及为何进行新的文献计量研究指标（BRI）的本地翻译。尽管学者们强调研究评估系统在设计上是强者还是弱者，但这项研究表明了地方管理者如何在某种程度上使国家体系变得强者或弱者。该研究还发现，尽管经理的翻译受一系列背景因素制约。这些因素被确定为经济诱因，问题定义，指标竞争以及身份和文化。