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Measuring returns on investment
Research assessment is a broad endeavour. At root it is an attempt to measure the return on investment in scientific-scholarly research. Research assessment includes the evaluation of research quality and measurements of research inputs, outputs and impacts, and embraces both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including the application of bibliometric indicators and mapping, and peer review.
Research performance is increasingly regarded as a key factor in economic performance and societal welfare. As such, research assessment has become a major issue for a wide range of stakeholders, and there is consequently an increasing focus on research quality and excellence, transparency, accountability, comparability and competition.
This focus means that government funding of scientific research – especially in universities – tends to be based more and more on performance criteria. Such a policy requires the organization of large-scale research assessment exercises by national governmental agencies. ...
The institutional view
Today, research institutions and universities operate in the context of a global market. International comparisons or rankings of institutions are published on a regular basis, with the aim of informing students and knowledge-seeking external groups about their quality. Research managers also use this information to benchmark their own institutions against their competitors.
In light of these developments, institutions are increasingly setting up internal research assessment processes, and building research management information systems. These are based on a variety of relevant input and output measures of the performance of individual research units within an institution, enabling managers to allocate funds within the institution according to the past performance of the research groups. ...
Currently, three large multidisciplinary citation indexes are available: Elsevier’s Scopus, Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, and Google Scholar. ...
May 2011 / Henk Moed
read more http://www.researchtrends.com/issue23-may-2011/research-assessment-101-an-introduction/
Measuring returns on investment
Research assessment is a broad endeavour. At root it is an attempt to measure the return on investment in scientific-scholarly research. Research assessment includes the evaluation of research quality and measurements of research inputs, outputs and impacts, and embraces both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including the application of bibliometric indicators and mapping, and peer review.
Research performance is increasingly regarded as a key factor in economic performance and societal welfare. As such, research assessment has become a major issue for a wide range of stakeholders, and there is consequently an increasing focus on research quality and excellence, transparency, accountability, comparability and competition.
This focus means that government funding of scientific research – especially in universities – tends to be based more and more on performance criteria. Such a policy requires the organization of large-scale research assessment exercises by national governmental agencies. ...
The institutional view
Today, research institutions and universities operate in the context of a global market. International comparisons or rankings of institutions are published on a regular basis, with the aim of informing students and knowledge-seeking external groups about their quality. Research managers also use this information to benchmark their own institutions against their competitors.
In light of these developments, institutions are increasingly setting up internal research assessment processes, and building research management information systems. These are based on a variety of relevant input and output measures of the performance of individual research units within an institution, enabling managers to allocate funds within the institution according to the past performance of the research groups. ...
Currently, three large multidisciplinary citation indexes are available: Elsevier’s Scopus, Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, and Google Scholar. ...
May 2011 / Henk Moed
read more http://www.researchtrends.com/issue23-may-2011/research-assessment-101-an-introduction/
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