02/10/2018
« This report follows the request for contributions concerning the indicators proposed in the document Preliminary Open Science Monitor (OSM). (…) »
25/09/2018
« Quantitative metrics are playing an increasingly important role in the assessment of academic careers. Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation, considers other characteristics to be more important. (…) »
13/09/2018
« Publication de référence sur l’état de l’éducation dans le monde, Regards sur l’éducation : Les indicateurs de l’OCDE fournit des données clés sur la structure, le financement et la performance des systèmes d’éducation des 35 pays de l’OCDE, ainsi que d’un certain nombre de pays partenaires. Avec plus de 100…
05/09/2018
« L’ensemble de la communauté scientifique réclame depuis plusieurs années des indicateurs fiables permettant de mesurer les répercussions de la recherche. La ferveur inégalée autour de la mesure de l’influence de la recherche, combinée avec les nouveaux modes de diffusion des connaissances à l’ère numérique, a révolutionné le domaine de la…
31/07/2018
« Academic librarians, especially in the field of scholarly communication, are often expected to understand and engage with research impact indicators. However, much of the current literature speculates about how academic librarians are using and implementing research impact indicators in their practice. (…) »
26/07/2018
« Le Cirad a signé, le 3 juillet 2018, la déclaration de San Francisco sur l’évaluation de la recherche (DORA) . Cette déclaration remet en cause le facteur d’impact comme indicateur de l’évaluation des chercheurs. Objectif de l’initiative : trouver des alternatives aux métriques actuelles dans l’évaluation de la recherche et…
17/07/2018
« Over the last five years the use, and abuse, of metrics in research assessment has been in sharp focus, with three major frameworks – the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), the Leiden Manifesto and The Metric Tide – all calling for a step change in the culture of metrics…
16/07/2018
« This publication, published every second year, provides a statistical portrait of the European Union (EU) in relation to the rest of the world. It presents a broad range of indicators for the EU and the non-EU members of the Group of Twenty (G20). It is structured into three parts: people…
26/06/2018
« The Open Science Monitor tracks the development of open science trends in Europe.
Initially launched in 2017 to support the EU policies, the OSM has been revamped in May 2018 with updated data and visual identity. But open science is continuously developing, and over the next months,…
14/06/2018
« Twitter has arguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early indicators of citations as well as measures of societal impact. This chapter provides an overview of Twitter activity as the basis for…