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- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
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- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
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- Philosophy and History of Science
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- Delphi Technique in Research
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Leiden University
2016-2025
RWTH Aachen University
2025
Center for Assessment
2023
Illinois Institute of Technology
2023
Imperial College London
2023
University of Manchester
2019-2020
Austrian Institute of Economic Research
2019
Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria
2019
Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
2019
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2019
Journal Article Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use—a literature review Get access Sarah de Rijcke, Rijcke * 1 Centre for Science Technology Studies (CWTS), Faculty Social Sciences, Leiden University, 2300 AX, The Netherlands, *Corresponding author. Email: s.de.rijcke@cwts.leidenuniv.nl Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul F. Wouters, Wouters Alex D. Rushforth, Rushforth Thomas P. Franssen, Franssen Björn Hammarfelt 2 Swedish School Library...
Journal Article Accountability in context: effects of research evaluation systems on publication practices, disciplinary norms, and individual working routines the faculty Arts at Uppsala University Get access Björn Hammarfelt, Hammarfelt * 1Department ALM, University, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden 2CWTS, Leiden 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands *Corresponding author. Email: bjorn.hammarfelt@abm.uu.se Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sarah de Rijcke Research...
The range and types of performance metrics has recently proliferated in academic settings, with bibliometric indicators being particularly visible examples. One field that traditionally been hospitable towards such is biomedicine. Here the relative merits bibliometrics are widely discussed, debates often portraying them as heroes or villains. Despite a plethora controversies, one most used this said to be Journal Impact Factor (JIF). In article we argue much current around researchers' uses...
While quantitative performance indicators are widely used by organizations and individuals for evaluative purposes, little is known about their impacts on the epistemic processes of academic knowledge production. In this article we bring together three qualitative research projects undertaken in Netherlands Austria to contribute filling gap. The explored role metrics life sciences, interactions between institutional disciplinary cultures evaluating these fields. Our analytic perspective...
This document presents the Bonn PRINTEGER Consensus Statement: Working with Research Integrity—Guidance for research performing organisations. The aim of statement is to complement existing instruments by focusing specifically on institutional responsibilities strengthening integrity. It takes into account daily challenges and organisational contexts most researchers. intends make integrity recognisable from work-floor perspective, providing concrete advice measures strengthen statement,...
The rise of new modes evaluating academic work has substantially changed institutions and cultures knowledge production. This been reflected criticized in the literature STS beyond. For scholars, these debates (should) however have an even more specific dimension. Many us are experts on aspects changes. But at same time, we too part processes analyzing, often criticizing. To put it slightly provocatively, cannot avoid playing very game that scrutinize. creates tensions many reflect on,...
The research community has responded to the Covid-19 crisis with speed, creativity and innovation. But pandemic also shone fresh light on inner workings of research, intensified scrutiny how is funded, practiced, disseminated evaluated, cultures can be made more open, inclusive impactful. uncertain possibilities present moment follow a period in which concern over long-standing concerns aspects assessment. As attention shifts from describing these problems, towards designing implementing...
Over the past decades, science funding shows a shift from recurrent block towards project mechanisms. However, our knowledge of how arrangements influence organizational and epistemic properties research is limited. To study this relation, bridge between policy studies necessary. Recent have analyzed relation affordances constraints grants research. potentially very different such as awards, prizes fellowships, not yet been taken into account. Drawing on eight case in high performing Dutch...
Abstract Research integrity (RI) is usually discussed in terms of responsibilities that individual researchers bear towards the scientific work they conduct, as well institutions have to enable those do so. In addition these two bearers responsibility, a third category often surfaces, which variably referred culture and practice . These notions merit further development beyond residual contain everything not covered by attributions individuals institutions. This paper discusses how thinking...
Abstract Recent times have seen the growth in number and scope of interacting professional reform movements science, centered on themes such as open research, research integrity, responsible assessment, metrics. The metrics movement identifies growing influence quantitative performance indicators a major problem seeks to steer improve practices around their use. It is multi-actor, multi-disciplinary premised upon engendering sense responsibility among academic evaluators approach with...
Global university rankings have become increasingly important 'calculative devices' for assessing the 'quality' of higher education and research. Their ability to make characteristics universities 'calculable' is here exemplified by first proper ranking ever, produced as early 1910 American psychologist James McKeen Cattell. Our paper links epistemological rationales behind construction this sociopolitical context in which Cattell operated: an era psychology became institutionalized against...
Recent high‐profile statements, criticisms, and boycotts organized against certain quantitative indicators (e.g., the DORA declaration) have brought misuses of performance metrics to center attention. A key concern captured in these movements is that appear carry authority even where established agents quality control explicitly outlined limits their validity reliability as measurement tools. This raises a number challenging questions for those readers this journal who are implicated...
How are “interesting” research problems identified and made durable by academic researchers, particularly in situations defined multiple evaluation principles? Building on two case studies of groups working rare diseases biomedicine, we explore how group leaders arrange their to encompass that latch onto distinct principles dividing combining work into “basic-oriented” “clinical-oriented” spheres inquiry. Following recent developments the sociology (e)valuation comparing academics capitalist...
This article discusses a project under development called “Inventing Indicators of Interdisciplinarity,” as an example work in methodology that combines quantitative methods with interpretative approaches social and cultural research. Key to our is the idea Science Technology not only have representative value, enabling empirical insight into fields research innovation but simultaneously organizing capacity, their deployment enables curation communities interpretation. We begin discussion...
The increasing pursuit of replicable research and actual replication is a political project that articulates very specific technology accountability for science. This was initiated in response to concerns about the openness trustworthiness Though applicable valuable many fields, here we argue this value cannot be extended everywhere, since epistemic content as well their infrastructures, differ. Furthermore, there are limits replicability across all fields; but some including parts...
Abstract Social media metrics have a genuine networked nature, reflecting the networking characteristics of social platform from where they are derived. This nature has been relatively less explored in literature on altmetrics, although new network‐level approaches starting to appear. A general conceptualization role networks science communication, and particularly as specific type interface between society, is still missing. The aim this paper provide conceptual framework for appraising...
In order to build legitimacy, we argue that reform movements need make their moral programmes visible and account for value-prioritisation . To support such reflection on programmes, compare programs of the protestant Reformation movement in science. We play a crucial role shaping science, different offer promises sustained credible, reliable, fair, equitable primarily discuss virtue equity through interrogating both relation Reformation, seek display relevance sociopolitical contexts how...
In this article, we study the use of curricula vitae (CV) for competitive funding decisions in science. The typically sober administrative style academic résumés evokes impression straightforwardly conveyed, objective evidence on which to base comparisons past achievements and future potentials. We instead conceptualize evaluation biographical as a generative interplay between an historically grown, infrastructure (the CV), situated evaluative practice representational function that is...