Centralised hiring a barrier to research assessment reform

Centralised evaluation of individual researchers will be 바카라사이트 starkest challenge for Europe��s renewed research assessment reform agenda, according to national experts.

More than 300 organisations have signed 바카라사이트?Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, committing to?broaden and diversify evaluation. An accompanying coalition, which elected leaders in December, will help signatories?switch to using mainly?qualitative judgements of research, and?recognise wider work, such as teaching and?leadership.?

Returning to peer review from an era dominated by?publication metrics is an ongoing challenge for many funders and departments, but for national systems that pre-screen tens of thousands of?academics�� work before?hiring or promotion, 바카라사이트 change is even more formidable.?

��The impression that we get is that this reform is going to be very difficult for any country that has a centralised system,�� Ismael Rafols, a senior researcher at 바카라사이트 Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University,?and an author of 바카라사이트 landmark Leiden Manifesto, which in 2015?set out principles on 바카라사이트 use of metrics in evaluation, told?온라인 바카라.

Dr Rafols said Italy, Poland and Spain all had high-volume systems that would struggle to move away from machine-crunchable bibliometrics.?��This is one of 바카라사이트 critical points of 바카라사이트 new agreement, because when you have to evaluate large volumes of individuals, implementing massive peer review can be a problem: finding 바카라사이트 reviewers, handling 바카라사이트 conflicts of interest,�� said Alberto Credi, vice-rector for research at 바카라사이트 University of Bologna.??

Fears of nepotism drove 바카라사이트 construction of many metrics-based systems and?a return to peer review?will require trust. ��Generally in Poland I believe we have a big mistrust in expert evaluation. This is why we want to cling, some early career researchers also, to ��objective��, numeric parameters, because we feel like it is individual-bias resistant,�� said Jacek Kolanowski, chair of 바카라사이트 Polish Young Academy and head of department at 바카라사이트 Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of 바카라사이트 Polish Academy of Science in Pozna��, adding that he saw?more trust in peer review while working in France, Germany and?Australia.

Professor Credi said it would take ��several years�� to build trust in expert evaluation in Italy. To apply for permanent positions, Italian academics must pass through 바카라사이트 national habilitation system (ASN), which is based solely on bibliometrics, with 바카라사이트 subsequent?concorsi?competitions, held by institutions, based on?peer review.

Italy��s previous universities minister, Maria Cristina Messa, had signalled plans to make 바카라사이트 ASN ��much lighter and less constraining, giving more importance to 바카라사이트 local evaluation��, said Fabio Zwirner, vice-rector for research at 바카라사이트 University of Padua, but those plans froze when she left office after September��s election. ��It was not clear how she was thinking of realising that, because she was mentioning artificial intelligence tools. I couldn��t disagree more with this approach,�� he added.

바카라 사이트 추천?understands that 바카라사이트 latest draft of Spain��s updated universities law also softens 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 national accreditation system in?hiring and promotion decisions, giving more heft to local judgements, although publications and conference attendance tallies are currently set to remain.

Decentralisation could bring both countries closer to 바카라사이트 ideal set out in 바카라사이트 agreement, although aberrations may occur. A September??for?Italy��s national Covid recovery fund asked applicants to cite 바카라사이트ir ��total impact factor��, a summation based on 바카라사이트 journals an applicant published in, and which ��does not make any sense to me and many of my colleagues��, said Professor Credi.

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