Altmetrics: How Researchers Assess the Significance for Scholarly Impact
Altmetrics: How Researchers Assess the Significance for Scholarly Impact
Altmetrics have been an important topic in the context of open science for some time.
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Knowledge Sector Takes Major Step Forward in New Approach to Recognising and Rewarding Academics
Knowledge Sector Takes Major Step Forward in New Approach to Recognising and Rewarding Academics
Academics can excel in many areas, but thus far they have primarily been assessed based on research achievements. From now on, the public knowledge institutions and research funders want to consider academics' knowledge and expertise more broadly in determining career policy and grant requirements.
Dutch End 'one-sided' Research Focus and Hope World Follows
Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive 'emphasis on research performance'.
To Fix Research Assessment, Swap Slogans for Definitions
Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Quality Criteria in Scholarship and Science: Proposing a Visualization of Their Interactions
Proposing a model for thinking about the interactions of rigor, cogency, accessibility, significance, openness, and impact in scholarly quality.
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