Metrics-based research evaluation
The challenges in building robust research evaluation and management systems in institutions can be best overcome by the research management and librarian community working together.
Metrics-based research evaluation offers a pragmatic approach to ensuring transparency, consistency and objectivity, and is gaining increasing importance in assessing research performance on international, national and institutional levels. The challenges in building robust research evaluation and management systems in institutions can be best overcome by the research management and librarian community working together. These were some of the views that delegates shared following an international bibliometrics conference jointly hosted by the Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia April 2009.
During the conference, which had over 140 delegates, distinguished international and Australian speakers addressed critical issues of research evaluation from their national perspectives, including the importance of synergy between institutions Libraries and Research Offices.
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