Abstract:

The level of experts is a decisive factor for the success and failure of the review of science research projects.An approach to evaluating the level of experts for the assessment of science research projects is proposed. The evaluation indexes related to the situations on the science research projects reviewed by experts and obtained by experts are described, respectively, and computation formulas of the evaluation indexes are presented. Then, alternative experts are screened by the constructed bidimension coordinate system. An approach based the TOPSIS(Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method is proposed to obtain the rank of the rest experts. And an illustrative example is used to show the practicality and validity of the proposed approach. The proposed approach can provide decision support to expert selection for the assessment of science research projects.

Key words: expert evaluation, science research projects, evaluation index, technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method