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Appropriate Use of Metrics in Research Assessment of Autonomous Academic Institutions
, 2020 Policy highlights • This paper criticizes a “quick-and-dirty” desktop model for the use of metrics in the assessment of academic research performance, and proposes a series of alternatives.
H. Moed
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Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology
Data 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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From Signtometrics to Scientometrics: A Cautionary Tale of Our Times
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2013 It is but a short journey from citation indexing to citation analysis and thence to evaluative bibliometrics. This paper outlines the path and describes how the time-honored practice of affixing bibliographic references to scholarly articles has paved ...
Cronin, Blaise
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Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal
European 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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Research Assessment in the UK [PDF]
Science, 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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'In praise of educational research': formative assessment [PDF]
, 2003 In this paper we trace the development of the King’s Formative Assessment Programme (KFAP) from its origins in diagnostic testing in the 1970s, through the graded assessment movement in the 1980s, to the present day. In doing so, we discuss the practical
Black, Paul, Wiliam, Dylan
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Eugene Garfield’s Influences upon the Future of Evaluative Informetrics
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2018 This contribution highlights Eugene Garfield’s influences upon the author’s views and proposals. In addition, it presents the author’s perspective on the future of evaluative informetrics, based on his monograph Applied Evaluative Informetrics published ...
Henk F. Moed
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Bollettino Telematico di Filosofia Politica, 2018 The failures of a bibliometric research assessment system can be dismissed as "anecdotal" evidences only by assuming that research yields fungible "products" that can be replaced, if flawed, by identical copies.
Maria Chiara Pievatolo
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Knowledge and sociality: on the Institute of Education (London) as a second home
London Review of Education, 2022 I have had a close and long-standing relationship with the IOE (Institute of Education), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK).
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Are female scientists underrepresented in self-retractions for honest error?
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2023 Retractions are among the effective measures to strengthen the self-correction of science and the quality of the literature. When it comes to self-retractions for honest errors, exposing one's own failures is not a trivial matter for researchers. However,
Mariana D. Ribeiro +5 more
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