« As 2019 winds down, the DORA steering committee and advisory board wanted to highlight the ways research assessment reform has advanced in the last year. From new data on assessment policies to the development of new tools, the scholarly community is taking action to improve research assessment in concrete ways.…
« Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based adjustments are necessary to ensure that measurements yield the most accurate picture of impact and excellence. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations, which are either excluded or inappropriately accounted for…
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L’évaluation de la recherche
L’évaluation est un élément fondamental de la recherche. Elle est un axe du Plan national pour la science ouverte, du manifeste de Leiden, et constitue le cœur du sujet de la…
« La mise en œuvre de la science ouverte nécessite la prise en compte de l’ensemble des processus et activités de recherche dans l’évaluation. Dans ce but, le document liste les types de documents et productions élaborés pendant le cycle de la recherche et leurs modes de diffusion ouverte ainsi que…
« One year ago, the Dutch universities, university medical centers and research institutes, together with funding agencies NWO and ZonMW put forward the ambition to revisit their collective system of recognition and rewards. Last week the position paper “Room for everyone’s talent” – a collaborative document –…
« Today, the VSNU, NFU, KNAW, NWO and ZonMw are publishing the position paper ‘Room for everyone’s talent: towards a new balance in the recognition and rewards for academics’ in which we indicate how we aim to more broadly recognise and reward the work of academic staff.…
« This report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the current state of research assessment at European universities, and shows why and how institutions are reviewing their evaluation practices. Based on the results of the 2019 EUA Open Science and Open Access Survey on Research Assessment, it aims to inform…
« Le compte-rendu annuel d’activité (CRAC) est bien connu du chercheur CNRS : c’est un résumé des points forts de ses activités de recherche et des différentes activités liées à son métier. Pour la liste de ses publications, le formulaire CRAC est automatiquement alimenté par les dépôts HAL (références bibliographiques et…
« RAND Europe conducted a study to explore current and future changes in the research landscape and how this may affect the nature of national research assessment. We explored the following questions and how responses to them may change in the next 5 to 10 years: (i) why assess research? (ii)…
« The RDA-SHARC (SHAring Reward & Credit) interest group is an interdisciplinary group endorsed by Research Data Alliance. It intends to improve crediting and rewarding mechanisms for scientists who work towards sharing their data for potential reuse. In this perspective, assessing the compliance with FAIR practices and increasing the understanding of…
