Anthony Duff, the Chair of the RAE2008 Philosophy sub-panel, has released the breakdown of scores they awarded for the various components that went into determining departments’ RAE results. (For each department or unit, research outputs were worth 80% of the overall distribution of grades, research environment was worth 15%, and esteem was worth 5%.) They are as follows:
| Outputs | 4* | 3* | 2* | 1* | U |
| 13.3% | 38.2% | 40.3% | 7.6% | 0.6% |
| Research environment | 4* | 3* | 2* | 1* | U |
| Unweighted | 34.5% | 29.0% | 28.6% | 7.9% | 0.0% |
| Weighted by size of unit | 55.4% | 24.6% | 17.0% | 3.0% | 0.0% |
| Esteem indicators | 4* | 3* | 2* | 1* | U |
| Unweighted | 29.7% | 25.0% | 40.5% | 4.8% | 0.0% |
| Weighted by size of unit | 51.1% | 23.8% | 23.3% | 1.8% | 0.0% |
Please note:
1. You can see the breakdown of the score for each department into output, environment and esteem components here.
2. The weighted scores take into account the size of the unit/department. Imagine just 2 departments were submitted, and that Department X had all 100% of its esteem score valued at 4*, and Department Y had all 100% awarded at 3*. The unweighted distribution nationally would thus be 50% at 4* and 50% at 3*. But Dept X had 9 members of staff submitted, whereas Dept Y only had 1. So the weighted distribution nationally would be 90% at 4* and 10% at 3*.
