Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals’ editorial board positions
Authors : Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher, Tamara Heck, Kerstin Schoch Editormetrics analyses the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the scientif...
Étiquette : research evaluation
How Can Science and Research Work Well? Toward a Critique of New Public Management Practices in Academia From a Socio-Philosophical Perspective
Author : Jan-Philipp Kruse While New Public Management practices (NPM) have been adopted in academia and higher education over the past two decades, this paper ...
How should evaluation be? Is a good evaluation of research also just? Towards the implementation of good evaluation
Authors : Cinzia Daraio, Alessio Vaccari In this paper we answer the question of how evaluation should be by proposing a good evaluation of research practices. ...
Reshaping How Universities Can Evaluate the Research Impact of Open Humanities for Societal Benefit
Authors : Paul Longley Arthur, Lydia Hearn During the twenty-first century, for the first time, the volume of digital data has surpassed the amount of analog da...
Academic social networks metrics: an effective indicator for university performance?
Authors : Łukasz Wiechetek, Zbigniew Pastuszak Social networks have become popular among researchers and scientists. Specialized platforms for researchers offer...
What Is Wrong With the Current Evaluative Bibliometrics?
Author : Endel Põder Bibliometric data are relatively simple and describe objective processes of publishing articles and citing others. It seems quite straightf...
Evaluation and Merit-Based Increase in Academia: A Case Study in the First Person
Author : Christine Musselin This article provides a reflexive account of the process of defining and implementing a mechanism to evaluate a group of academics i...