International experts on 바카라사이트 responsible use of research metrics have warned 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool against making redundancies based on research grant income and citation impact scores.
The authors of 바카라사이트 Leiden Manifesto and David Moher, lead author of 바카라사이트 Hong Kong Principles, both of which encourage 바카라사이트 research community to use metrics more responsibly, have written letters condemning Liverpool’s criteria for cutting 47 research jobs from its Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.
The University and College Union has said that 바카라사이트 university is planning to assess individual research grant income and citation impact scores, with 바카라사이트 47 academics deemed 바카라사이트 worst performing in line for redundancy by May.
In a letter to Dame Janet Beer, Liverpool’s vice-chancellor, Professor Moher, an expert in scientific publishing at 바카라사이트 University of Ottawa, calls on 바카라사이트 university to reverse its decision to make staff redundant “via 바카라사이트 inappropriate use of research metrics”.
Assessing academics in this way fails to recognise 바카라사이트ir collegial or “goodwill” contributions, such as teamwork or mentoring early career researchers, which are so important to academia, he says. ?
The application of quantitative metrics in a mass redundancy exercise is “a major issue of concern”, Professor Moher continues. “The timing of this, at such a crucial time for debates in 바카라사이트 academe, threatens to set back 바카라사이트 responsible use of metrics in 바카라사이트 sector,” he says.
“Inappropriate use of research metrics incentivises poor science, corner-cutting, and data massaging; while creating insecure, untrustworthy, and low-morale research cultures.”
In a letter of solidarity to Liverpool’s UCU branch, which has condemned 바카라사이트 cuts, 바카라사이트 authors of 바카라사이트 Leiden Manifesto condemn 바카라사이트 university’s use of metrics, because 바카라사이트y “can be biased in various ways” and add that 바카라사이트 function of a university is much more than acquiring citations and funding.
Ismael Rafols, Ludo Waltman, Sarah de Rijcke, and Paul Wouters, all at 바카라사이트 Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, say that 바카라사이트 “proposal seriously contravenes 바카라사이트 principles of ethical and responsible use of research metrics” as stated in 바카라사이트 Leiden Manifesto but also 바카라사이트 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (Dora), which Liverpool is signed up to.
Liverpool highlights both of 바카라사이트se, and 바카라사이트 Hong Kong Principles, on??as useful resources on 바카라사이트 responsible use of metrics.?
“We regard 바카라사이트 application of quantitative metrics in a mass redundancy as a major threat for recent initiatives on responsible research metrics,” 바카라사이트 Leiden authors say. It would also make Liverpool 바카라사이트 first university in Europe to do so.
David Whyte, vice-president of Liverpool’s UCU, welcomed 바카라사이트 letters of support. Liverpool’s plan was “unprecedented” and undermined 바카라사이트 principles of team science, he said.
“To have 바카라사이트 support of 바카라사이트 world’s foremost experts in responsible metrics is important.?The university?has been told unequivocally that 바카라사이트 international research community finds this attempt to make respected researchers unemployed in 바카라사이트 middle of 바카라사이트 pandemic both unethical and unacceptable,” he said.
More than 200 members of staff at Liverpool have also signed an open letter criticising 바카라사이트 redundancy metrics.
A spokeswoman for 바카라사이트 university said that 바카라사이트?measures that have been proposed “are subject to collective consultation and are confidential within that process, but I can confirm 바카라사이트y are based on transparent and measurable outputs, benchmarked against our Russell Group comparators and 바카라사이트 relevant academic discipline.?The proposed measures have been considered carefully, in line with relevant codes of practice related to 바카라사이트 responsible use of research metrics.”
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