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Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology
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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How should research be assessed? This is a core question in all institutions supporting research activities. To legitimise their existence, their autonomy, and their power, higher education institutions need tools for assessment that can verify their position as society’s guardians of truth and critical thinking.
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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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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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Research Assessment in the UK [PDF]
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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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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Editorial statement: Lessons from Goodhart’s law for the management of the journal
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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What factors influence nurses’ assessment practices? Development of the Barriers to Nurses’ use of Physical Assessment Scale [PDF]
Aim To develop and psychometrically test the Barriers to Nurses' use of Physical Assessment Scale. Background: There is growing evidence of failure to recognize hospitalized patients at risk of clinical deterioration, in part due to inadequate ...
Collier, TG +29 more
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The Assessment of Legal Research in Spain. Is Einstein Better than Kelsen?
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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Citation, Citation, Citation: Bibliometrics, the web and the Social Sciences and Humanities
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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