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Category Archives: Rankings
Dec 5 2012
Leading or following: Data and rankings must inform strategic decision making, not drive them
2 CommentsAt yesterday’s Future of Impact conference, Cameron Neylon argued that universities must ask how their research is being re-used, and choose to become the most skilled in using available data to inform strategic decision making. It’s time to put down the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 5, 2012
Tagged with: impact, rankings
Jun 8 2012
The demise of the Impact Factor: The strength of the relationship between citation rates and IF is down to levels last seen 40 years ago
11 CommentsJobs, grants, prestige and career advancement are all partially based on an admittedly flawed concept: the journal Impact Factor. Impact factors have been becoming increasingly meaningless since 1991, writes George Lozano, who finds that the variance of papers’ citation rates … Continue reading
Posted by: June 8, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, citations, impact, journals
Nov 26 2011
Book Review: Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education
Comments OffHigher education rankings do not necessarily reflect what users think they represent, discusses Ellen Hazelkorn in her recent book, reviewed by Andreea Moise. Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for Excellence. Ellen Hazelkorn. Palgrave MacMillan. March 2011. … Continue reading
Posted by: November 26, 2011
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic work, academic writing, citations, impact factor, journals, rankings, social sciences, University
Aug 19 2011
Measuring thoughts and thinkers: why the ongoing conflict about measuring the value of science and humanities may be ultimately fruitless
1 CommentSmall competitions, such as the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers scheme, preserve the essential features of larger assessments of research quality such as the REF, argues Jon Adams. But what does it mean to compare achievements in such disparate fields as … Continue reading
Posted by: August 19, 2011
Tagged with: BBC New Generation Thinkers, impact, Jon Adams, Research funding
May 24 2011
A beginner’s guide to the different types of impact: why the traditional ‘bean-counting’ approach is no longer useful in the digital era
Comments OffEnhancing the capacity to understand academic influence can help all of us in the social sciences to become more effective as researchers. But how do we define one type of impact from another? Here we take a closer look at … Continue reading
Posted by: May 24, 2011
Apr 18 2011
‘Payback’ approach has scope to continue evolving, concludes research impact workshop
Comments OffIn March, Brunel University’s Health Economics Research Group (HERG) hosted an international two-day workshop on ‘State of the Art in Assessing Research Impact’. The workshop built on HERG’s leadership in assessing research impact, especially the ‘Payback’ Framework pioneered by Professor … Continue reading
Posted by: April 18, 2011
Apr 14 2011
‘Maximizing The Impacts Of Your Research: A Handbook For Social Scientists’ now available to download as a PDF
1 CommentFor the past year a team of academics based at the London School of Economics, the University of Leeds and Imperial College have been working on a ‘Research Impacts’ project aimed at developing precise methods for measuring and evaluating the … Continue reading
Posted by: April 14, 2011
Feb 15 2011
Australia’s research strength lays in science, according to first national assesment
1 CommentThis week THE brings us the results of Australia’s first ever national research assessment, which found research in the sciences stronger than in the humanities and social sciences. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) ranked biotechnology, earth sciences, physical … Continue reading
Posted by: February 15, 2011
