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Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology

open access: yesData Science Journal, 2017
This paper reflects on the relation between international debates around data quality assessment and the diversity characterising research practices, goals and environments within the life sciences.
Sabina Leonelli
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Assessing IS Research Impact

open access: yesCommunications of the Association for Information Systems, 2015
Based on the International Conference on Information Systems’ (ICIS) 2013 senior scholars’ forum, this paper shares insights on IS research impact assessment. We define research impact as conducting research that makes a difference to individuals, businesses, industries, and societies.
Fred Niederman   +5 more
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In numbers we trust?

open access: yeseLife, 2014
Scientists go to great lengths to ensure that data are collected and analysed properly, so why, asks Eve Marder, do they apply different standards to data about the number of times research papers have been cited and viewed?
Eve Marder
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Global trends in oncology research: A mixed‐methods study of publications and clinical trials from 2010 to 2019

open access: yesCancer Reports, 2023
Purpose To evaluate the cancer research effort of some major countries over two 5‐year periods (2010–2014 and 2015–2019) on the basis of scientific publications and interventional clinical trial metrics and to analyze the relationship between research ...
Vincent Akiki   +3 more
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Research Assessment in the UK [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2002
I n the 1980s, the United Kingdom's University Grants Committee responded to demands for greater accountability by introducing a Research Selectivity (later called Assessment) Exercise. The RAE ran over five cycles between 1986 and 2001. Panels in 69 discipline-based units of assessment (UoAs) awarded grades against performance data and strategy ...
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Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Government and Economics, 2014
In this editorial statement we summarise some of the discussions we have had in the last months regarding the risks associated with the use of indicators for the measurement of research outputs, and how these risks should affect the management of the ...
Diego Varela   +2 more
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The Assessment of Legal Research in Spain. Is Einstein Better than Kelsen?

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Público, 2020
This paper first examines the constitutional provisions that must guide public research assessment procedures. Freedom of research (Art. 20(1)(b) CE) requires these procedures to be “suitable” for science as well as for science to be involved therein ...
José María Rodríguez de Santiago
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Peer Review in Law Journals

open access: yesFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2021
The field of law has retained its distinctiveness regarding peer review to this day, and reviews are often conducted without following standardized rules and principles.
Jadranka Stojanovski   +4 more
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Citation, Citation, Citation: Bibliometrics, the web and the Social Sciences and Humanities

open access: yesCybergeo, 2007
The use of digital resources and the affirmation of research assessment exercises throws a new light on the issue of bibliometrics. The paper reviews the main data bases and indicators in use.
Christine Kosmopoulos, Denise Pumain
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Clashing Concepts and Methods: Assessing Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences

open access: yesHumanities, 2015
The humanities are going through a period of exceptional vitality characterised by the proliferation of novel interpretative frameworks, methodologies and perspectives.
Peter Scott
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