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Full Description
This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessible policy briefs, the book serves as an essential resource for new actors in research policy. It offers evidence-based recommendations on approaching research governance, funding, and evaluation challenges by covering these topics:
Identifying and facilitating high quality research
Evaluating transdisciplinary research quality
Evaluating societal impact
The dilemmas of grant peer review
How citations relate to research quality
Reforming research assessment
The use of metrics in academic recruitment
Quality criteria and concentration of research funding
Balancing basic and external research funding
Designing performance-based research funding systems
Strategic steering of research at universities
The consequences of paying to publish
Each chapter combines research with practical advice and provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in research on the specific topic, as well as references for further reading.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Notions of Research Quality and Evaluation of Research.- Chapter 2. Identifying and Facilitating High Quality Research.- Chapter 3. Evaluating Transdisciplinary Research Quality.- Chapter 4. Evaluating and Improving the Societal Impact of Research.- Chapter 5. The Many Dilemmas of Grant Peer Review.- Chapter 6. How Citations Relate to Research Quality.- Chapter 7. The Ongoing Reform of Research Assessment.- Chapter 8. The Use of Metrics in Academic Recruitment.- Part II: Research Funding and Governance.- Chapter 9. Quality Criteria and Concentration of Research Funding.- Chapter 10. Balancing Basic and External Research Funding: a Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 11. Designing Performance-based Research Funding Systems.- Chapter 12. The Limits of Universities' Strategic Capacity for Steering Research.- Chapter 13. The Consequences of Paying to Publish.
