Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Criticisms of the Citation System, and Google Scholar in Particular
In his second article about the citation system and Google Scholar, Louis Coiffait looks at some of the current criticisms.
How Google Scholar Judges Research
Louis Coiffait’s third article in his series on impact looks at the system of citation metrics, in particular Google Scholar.
Bridging Research and Policy: Alan Krueger, 1960-2019
Princeton economist Alan Krueger, who The New York Times described as “help[ing] lead economics toward a more scientific approach to research and policymaking” in his repeated stints in the public sector, has died at age 58.
At a Glance: The UK’s Twin-track Approach to Measuring Impact
In his second article in a series on impact, Louis Coiffait looks at how REF and KEF treat impact in the UK.
The Risks of Doing Research That Has Impact
David Canter considers the emotional and physical challenges of field research and the limits of conventional ethical approval.
DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research
The U.S. military’s innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as DARPA’s first step to assign a ‘credibility score’ to social and behavioral science research.
Academe Just Doesn’t Talk Enough about Research Metrics
The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use. Why is there such a discrepancy between principle and practices?
The Impact Chain – How to Craft an Effective Impact Narrative
A vital part of any research assessment program is the ability to clearly demonstrate the impacts, whatever they may, of the research undertaken. In this post, Katy McEwan presents the impact chain approach for writing impact case studies. A method, which provides a framework for producing impact narratives
