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Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics

10 principles to guide research evaluation with 23 translations, a video and a blog.

Leiden Manifesto paper
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Research evaluation has become routine and often relies on metrics. But it is increasingly driven by data and not by expert judgement. As a result, the procedures that were designed to increase the quality of research are now threatening to damage the scientific system. To support researchers and managers, five experts led by Diana Hicks, professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Paul Wouters, director of CWTS at Leiden University, have proposed 10 principles for the measurement of research performance: the Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics published as a comment in Nature.

Categories

  • Assessment
  • Publisher
    Nature Publishing
English