Beyond impact factor, h-Index and university rankings: Evaluate science in more meaningful ways
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The conference aims to: • Highlight the limitations of metrics in capturing scientific quality and the resulting pressure on the quality of scientific output; • Present assessment approaches - San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment DORA, Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics - that challenge conventional metrics; • Consider whether steps are necessary to maintain the high quality of the Swiss science landscape long-term.
The last few decades saw an unprecedented growth in the number of scientists and scientific institutions competing for limited resources in terms of employment opportunities and research funding. The ambition to allocate the available means to the best scientists and science favoured the establishment of quantitative metrics to assess the scientific merit of the sheer volume of research output. Impact and citation factors related to journals and publications as well as rankings of institutions are the best-known such tools. Inadvertently, however, these measurements potentially undermine the quality in science because they incite violations of globally accepted research integrity principles with adverse effects: scientific progress is hampered, the value of science to society and policy-making as trusted and authoritative source is jeopardised, and public research funding is not used effectively.
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- Ellen Hazelkorn: Challenging science – The geopolitics of knowledge and the accountability agenda
- Stephen Curry: What’s wrong with current metrics?
- Martin Reinhart: Evaluation and funding of research in Switzerland
- Stephanie Meirmans: Follow the money
- Michael Ochsner: What about next-generation assessments?
- James Wilsdon: Next generation assessments
- Sarah de Rijcke: Toward responsible assessment of science and scholarship
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Renowned experts highlighted the limitations of metrics in capturing scientific quality and the resulting pressure on the quality of scientific output and presented approaches that challenge conventional metrics. The implications for the Swiss science landscape long-term were the subject of a stakeholder roundtable and discussion with the audience.
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The SCNAT is organizing this one day event in Bern, with the aim to give the research community the chance to raise their concern and also the SNF and the European Commission to present their view and to inform about recent trends. The workshop should provide recommendations on how to implement the open data requirements.
Le système de recherche se développe parce que la productivité est récompensée. Ce qui fait sens pour l’économie peut conduire à des incitations négatives dans la science. La qualité des résultats scientifiques ne peut parfois plus être suffisamment assurée. Tout particulièrement en cette période de « fake news », la confiance dans la science ne doit pas être compromise. Dans une récente publication, l'Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales et l'Académie des sciences naturelles plaident pour la qualité avant la quantité.
Image : Gilles Nikles (SAGW)