The Role of University Rankings in Research Evaluation Revisited

How are rankings used in research evaluation and excellence initiatives? The author presents a literature review using English and Russian sources, as well as gray literature. The Russian case is highlighted, where rankings have had an essential role in research evaluation and policy until recently.

Dmitry Kochetkov • August 22, 2023

Navigating Responsible Research Assessment Guidelines

Responsible Research Assessment is discussed and used in many contexts. However, Responsible Research Assessment does not have a unifying definition, and likewise its guidelines indicate that the implementation of Responsible Research Assessment can have many different scopes.

Marianne Gauffriau • February 02, 2023

From ‘fund and forget’ to formative and participatory research evaluation

A trend in research evaluation is to include stakeholders as active partners in the evaluation process. In June, CWTS organized an online workshop to explore novel evaluation approaches and to identify possibilities and limitations for co-production in research evaluation.

Rinze Benedictus, Laurens Hessels, Ismael Rafols and Ingeborg Meijer • July 03, 2020

PIDapalooza 2020, Lisbon

At the end of January, I went to the PIDapalooza festival: the open festival of persistent identifiers. You can read everything about my experience in this post.

Zeynep Anli • March 13, 2020

Reflections on the Impact of Science Conference 2019

How is impact perceived and evaluated in national and regional science systems nowadays? Which stakeholders are involved and what examples exist on a national and international level? In this post, Grischa Fraumann reports on the Impact of Science conference from 5 until 7 June 2019 in Berlin.

Grischa Fraumann • October 31, 2019

Summary & Review

Blogs

The Role of University Rankings in Research Evaluation Revisited

Navigating Responsible Research Assessment Guidelines

From ‘fund and forget’ to formative and participatory research evaluation

PIDapalooza 2020, Lisbon

Reflections on the Impact of Science Conference 2019