« “The use of journal impact factors and other metric indicators of research productivity, such as the h-index, has been heavily criticised for being invalid for the assessment of individual researchers and for fueling a detrimental “publish or perish” culture. (…)
As of 12 January 2023, 441 organisations (including European…
« If the ARC’s research metrics are abolished they will be replaced by commercially-motivated providers of league tables and research metrics – when other nations are working on new ways of assessment. (…)
Australian universities have pursued higher rankings because their influence on international student recruitment drives short term financial…
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« L’Université de Genève a signé l’«Accord sur la réforme de l’évaluation de la recherche» aux côtés de centaines d’organisations scientifiques. Le texte vise à injecter des critères qualitatifs dans un système majoritairement basé sur des indices quantitatifs. (…) »
« Introduction to the Project TARA toolkit
Since 2013, DORA has advocated a number of principles for responsible research evaluation, including avoiding the use of journal-based metrics as surrogate measures of research quality, recognizing a broader range of scholarly outputs in promotion, tenure, and review practices, and the importance of…
« On Friday, 17 February, the EOSC Association was formally recognized as a signatory to the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, sponsored by the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, CoARA. This fast-moving initiative is approaching 500 organisational signatories to the Agreement, and reported more than 300 organisations participating in
« DORA will be 10 years old in May 2023 and we are planning to mark the occasion! We’ll be holding a weeklong celebration for DORA’s 10th Anniversary and we’re inviting you to join in by organizing an event on research assessment for your local community. We want to have conversations…
« One could think that bibliometric measurement of academic performance has always been digital since the computer-assisted invention of the Science Citation Index. Yet, since the 2000s, the digitization of bibliometric infrastructure has accelerated at a rapid pace. Citation databases are indexing an increasing variety of publication types. Altmetric data aggregators…
« L’Université de Lorraine a adhéré fin novembre à la CoARA, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, une coalition européenne pour améliorer l’évaluation de la recherche. Elle est officiellement née le 1er décembre, et regroupait à cette date près de 400 établissements européens de recherche, dont près de 40 organisations…
« Meta-research and research evaluation are very broad subjects, and their interrelationship cannot be adequately covered in a single chapter. Instead, this chapter examines the current state and future directions of meta-research for research evaluation through the lens of the individual researcher: even then, this discussion is necessarily selective, and omission…
« La politique en faveur de la science ouverte interroge les critères et les procédures de l’évaluation de la recherche, tout en mettant en avant les principes fondamentaux de l’éthique scientifique, comme la transparence, l’ouverture et l’intégrité. Dans ce contexte, nous menons depuis 2020 une analyse de la dimension éthique des…
