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Nature 414, 834 (20 December 2001) | doi:10.1038/414834a

British research audit may be last of its kind

David Adam

Researchers in the United Kingdom have an added reason for Christmas cheer — more than half of them now work in university departments that are rated as "world class". These are the findings of the British government's latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), a major audit of university research.