Social-media impact, university rankings and online-aggregator metrics are broken — better ways to assess researchers are needed.
). We created a simple citation-based ranking of 155 universities, and fed it data from each of three sources: Web of Science, Scopus and Microsoft Academic, all of which are tools for searching publication records. Three universities shifted more than 110 places, and 45 moved more than 20, when the data source changed.
What needs to change? The policy landscape has shifted in the past decade. The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, published last week , answers the Paris Call on Research Assessment to evaluate research on “intrinsic merits and impact, rather than on the number of publications and where they are published, promoting qualitative judgement provided by peers, supported by a responsible use of quantitative indicators”. In other words, its writers are sick of out-of-context numbers, too.
It is unfair but inescapable that much of the work will fall on the shoulders of early and mid-career researchers, for whom evaluations are most crucial. They have a choice of whether to provide more rigorous and complete evidence in their applications or just the usual numbers. But this is an opportunity to reshape the stories of their research, while making the assessment of their work fairer.
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