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Why do neoliberal universities play the numbers game?

Performance measurement has brought on a crisis in academia. At least, that’s what Roger Burrows (Goldsmiths, University of London) claims in a recent article for The Sociological Review. According to...

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Worldwide diversification of research continues

Last Wednesday, we published the new edition of the Leiden Ranking. The results are quite interesting. The range of countries with universities who score high on their number of highly cited...

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DORA – a stimulus for a new evaluation culture in science

We should urgently improve the ways in which the output of research is assessed by universities and funding agencies. Therefore, the dominance of the Journal Impact Factor in these evaluations should...

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The evidence on the Journal Impact Factor

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), see our most recent blogpost, focuses on the Journal Impact Factor, published in the Web of Science by Thomson Reuters. It is a strong plea...

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May university rankings help uncover problematic or fraudulent research?

Can one person manipulate the position of a whole university in a university ranking such as the Leiden Ranking? The answer is, unfortunately, sometimes yes – provided the processes of quality control...

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Vice Rector University of Vienna calls for a new scientometrics

At the opening of the bi-annual conference of the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) in Vienna on July 16, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, the Vice Rector of the University...

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Bibliometrics of individual researchers

The demand for measures of individual performance in the management of universities and research institutes has been growing, in particular since the early 2000s. The publication of the Hirsch Index in...

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The Persistent Lure of the Impact Factor--Even for PLOS ONE

Reblogged from The Scholarly Kitchen: With the growing support for DORA and policies like that of HEFCE, which forbids the use of the Impact Factor in assessing researchers, one would think that the...

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Bibliometrics of individual researchers – the debate in Berlin

The lively debate we had at the ISSI conference in Vienna continued at the STI2013 conference, “Translational twists and turns: science as a socio-economic endeavour” 4-6 September in Berlin. A full...

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Stick to Your Ribs: Interview with Paula Stephan — Economics, Science, and...

Reblogged from The Scholarly Kitchen: This interview with economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University and the National Bureau of Economic Research ran last April and accompanied my review of...

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NWO president Jos Engelen calls for in-depth study of editorial policies of...

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) wants to start an in-depth study of the editorial policies of the most famous scientific journals, such as Science, Nature, Cell, The Lancet,...

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Selling science to Nature

On Saturday 22 December, the Dutch national newspaper NRC published an interview with Hans Clevers, professor of molecular genetics and president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences...

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On exploding ‘evaluation machines’ and the construction of alt-metrics

The emergence of web-based ways to create and communicate new knowledge is affecting long-established scientific and scholarly research practices (cf. Borgman 2007; Wouters, Beaulieu, Scharnhorst,...

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Tales from the field: On the (not so) secret life of performance indicators

* Guest blog post by Alex Rushforth * In the coming months Sarah De Rijcke and I have been accepted to present at conferences in Valencia and Rotterdam on research from CWTS’s nascent EPIC working...

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On citation stress and publication pressure

Our article on citation stress and publication pressure in biomedicine went online this week – co-authored with colleagues from the Free University and University Medical Centre Utrecht: Tijdink, J.K.,...

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Metrics in research assessment under review

This week the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) published a call to gather “views and evidence relating to the use of metrics in research assessment and management”...

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The new Dutch research evaluation protocol

From 2015 onwards, the societal impact of research will be a more prominent measure of success in the evaluation of research in the Netherlands. Less emphasis will be put on the number of publications,...

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The Leiden manifesto in the making: proposal of a set of principles on the...

Summary A set of guiding principles (a manifesto) on the use of quantitative metrics in research assessment was proposed by Diana Hicks (Georgia Tech) during a panel session on quality standards for...

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Developing guiding principles and standards in the field of evaluation –...

This is a guest blog post by professor Peter Dahler-Larsen. The reflections below are a follow-up of his keynote at the STI conference in Leiden (3-5 September 2014) and the special session at STI on...

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Leiden Manifesto for research metrics published in Nature

We’re happy to announce the publication of ten principles to guide the use of metrics in research evaluation – a collaboration between Diana Hicks (Georgia Tech), Ismael Rafols (Ingenio/SPRU), Paul...

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