How faculty define quality, prestige, and impact in research
Authors : Esteban Morales, Erin McKiernan, Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski, Juan Pablo Alperin Despite the calls for change, there is significant consensus...
Étiquette : research evaluation
Research impact evaluation and academic discourse
Author : Marta Natalia Wróblewska The introduction of ‘impact’ as an element of assessment constitutes a major change in the construction of research evaluation...
Rethinking success, integrity, and culture in research (part 2) — a multi-actor qualitative study on problems of science
Authors : Noémie Aubert Bonn, Wim Pinxten Background Research misconduct and questionable research practices have been the subject of increasing attention in th...
Rethinking success, integrity, and culture in research (part 1) — a multi-actor qualitative study on success in science
Authors : Noémie Aubert Bonn, Wim Pinxten Background Success shapes the lives and careers of scientists. But success in science is difficult to define, let alon...
L’effet SIGAPS : La recherche médicale française sous l’emprise de l’évaluation comptable
Auteurs/Authors : Yves Gingras, Mahdi Khelfaoui Cette recherche a pour but de mettre en évidence les effets pervers générés par l’introduction du système SIGAPS...
Changing how we evaluate research is difficult, but not impossible
Authors : Anna Hatch, Stephen Curry The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was published in 2013 and described how funding agencies, instit...
Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be statistically wrong
Authors : Ludo Waltman, Vincent A. Traag Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles and their authors....