  This is the first ever attempt of application in a country other than Italy
of a research efficiency indicator (FSS), to assess and compare the 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.
