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Centre for the Evaluation Research Performance
There is a world-wide search for better ways of measuring research quality and consequently for ways of assessing policies designed to increase and enhance research outputs. This has been especially so in the United Kingdom following HEFCE’s commitment to a more metric-based approach to research evaluation in the future – the Research Excellence Framework.
While peer review remains the most reliable way of assessing a particular piece of scientific research, the estimation of overall quality for a research unit or institution using bibliometric and scientometric methods can be both economically and statistically meaningful. There is a demand for more reliable methodologies and the UK needs more research in this respect.
The inevitable growth of these methodologies will have effects on the behaviour of researchers and these effects need to be better understood.
Centre for the Evaluation Research Performance (CERP)
There is a world-wide search for better ways of measuring research quality and consequently for ways of assessing policies designed to increase and enhance research outputs. This has been especially so in the United Kingdom following HEFCE’s commitment to a more metric-based approach to research evaluation in the future – the Research Excellence Framework.
While peer review remains the most reliable way of assessing a particular piece of scientific research, the estimation of overall quality for a research unit or institution using bibliometric and scientometric methods can be both economically and statistically meaningful. There is a demand for more reliable methodologies and the UK needs more research in this respect.
The inevitable growth of these methodologies will have effects on the behaviour of researchers and these effects need to be better understood.