« 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…
« (…) Les Principes de Hong Kong (HKP) mettent l’accent sur la nécessité d’améliorer la recherche en veillant à ce que les chercheurs soient explicitement reconnus et récompensés pour les comportements qui renforcent l’intégrité de la recherche. (…) »
« Communication is an important mechanism to increase the uptake of responsible research assessment practices at universities and funding agencies. To help, DORA brings together public and private research funders for a virtual meeting each quarter to discuss new policies, practices, and pilot experiments for assessing research. On Thursday, June 25,…
« Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, today announced that it is endorsing the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics, ten principles that guide best practice in metrics-based research assessment. (…) »
« With limited funding and research positions available, there is increasing pressure on research organisations to put processes in place that ensure assessments of research quality are effective, efficient, fair, and transparent. For this reason, research organisations dedicate significant effort and resources towards the assessments they conduct, and continually look for…
« (…) A radical reform of research evaluation and funding in China was recently launched in two prescriptive policy documents published by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education. China now moves from a strong focus on Web of…
« We are pleased to announce a new briefing document from DORA and colleagues, “Rethinking Research Assessment: Ideas for Action,” which provides five design principles to help universities and research institutions improve their research assessment policies and practices. (…) »
« EUA and Science Europe present a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of academic career assessment in Europe based on recent surveys with universities and research funding and performing organisations. Speakers include: Jean-Pierre Finance, Amanda Crowfoot, Lidia Borrell-Damián, Bernard Rentier and Marc Schiltz. (…) »
« Depuis 2015, le Service commun de la Documentation (SCD) de l’Université de Guyane a entamé un travail de refonte de ses formations – notamment en Master et en Doctorat – dans le sens d’une ludification des contenus et d’une pratique générale de l’active learning.
Lors de l’Open Access Week…
