(7 Dec 2023) The UK’s next Research Excellence Framework has been delayed until 2029 amid concerns over plans to fully break the link between individual staff and university submissions. The exercise, whose results were due to be published in December 2028, will now conclude in the final month of 2029, it was announced on 7 December. …
(20 Jun 2023) Since its introduction nearly a decade ago, impact assessment for universities has been adopted in numerous locations around the world. With two recent announcements from international governmental bodies around the role of impact in future exercises – and at least another expected – we can observe several trends emerging. Read more…
(20 Oct 2022) Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released an in-depth look at formal regional research assessment, co-authored by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate, together with esteemed industry partners: Kate Williams, University of Melbourne; Jonathan Grant, Different Angles; Lutz Bornmann, Max Planck Institute and Martin Szomszor,…
(15 Sep 2022) Research England has commissioned a study of whether artificial intelligence could be used to predict the quality of research outputs based on analysis of journal abstracts, in a move that could potentially remove the need for peer review from the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The study, part of a broader review of the…
(2 Mar 2021) From the abstract of the article published by Marta Natalia Wróblewska on Humanities and Social Sciences Communications “The introduction of ‘impact’ as an element of assessment constitutes a major change in the construction of research evaluation systems. While various protocols of impact evaluation exist, the most articulated one was implemented as…