(…) As a member of the working group for the monitoring and further development of the evaluation protocol – and as an employee of CWTS – let me provide insight and context. In a series of blog posts I will focus on the evaluation…
« At the end of each year, the DORA steering committee and advisory board reflect on progress to improve research and researcher assessment. Even though 2020 presented no shortage of challenges stemming from the global COVID19 pandemic, organizations made time to experiment with policies and practices, develop…
« Elsevier signs Declaration on Research Assessment; implementation steps will include making reference lists of all articles openly available via Crossref. (…) »
« Case studies of universities and national consortia highlight key elements of institutional change to improve academic career assessment. (…) »
« DORA is pleased to announce a new digital repository of case studies, “Reimagining academic career assessment: stories of innovation and change,” to examine institutional change for academic career assessment across several organizations. The repository was created in collaboration with the European University Association (EUA) and SPARC…
« Starting with calls to be opened after 1 January 2021, the Academy of Finland will introduce a number of reforms concerning open access to scientific publications and responsible researcher evaluation. Through the reforms, the Academy wants to further strengthen its long-established policies on openness of scientific outputs and responsibility in…
« The paper reviews the Italian experience in the evaluation of research in the 2000–2020 period. (…) The paper offers detailed evidence of the evaluative framework, the main methodological and practical problems and the changes and adaptations introduced over time. It concludes with several policy implications. (…) »
« The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), an academic network created in 1967 and today gathering 680 research centers in 51 countries, is inviting the scientific community to share views on principles and recommendations for research evaluation, recently drafted by the Latin…
« Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases identifies seven personal biases that can influence hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. It also reveals four institutional and infrastructural implications of these biases and provides strategies to develop new institutional conditions that reduce bias. (…) »
« The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was published in 2013 and described how funding agencies, institutions, publishers, organizations that supply metrics, and individual researchers could better evaluate the outputs of scientific research. Since then DORA has evolved into an active initiative that gives practical advice to institutions on…
