CWTS part of H2020 COST Action to stimulate integrity and responsible research

by Sarah de Rijcke 11 Mar 2015

Good news came our way recently! Thed van Leeuwen, Paul Wouters and myself will be part of an EC-funded H2020 COST Action on Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research (PRINTEGER). Main applicants Hub Zwart and Willem Halff…

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Knowledge, control and capitalism: what epistemic capitalism makes us see

by Sarah de Rijcke 16 Feb 2015

Guest blog post by Thomas Franssen On February 5th Max Fochler (University of Vienna) gave a talk during an extended EPIC research group seminar at the CWTS in Leiden. Fochler posed a crucial and critical question regarding knowledge production in the …

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Knowledge, control and capitalism: what epistemic capitalism makes us see

by Sarah de Rijcke 16 Feb 2015

Guest blog post by Thomas Franssen On February 5th Max Fochler (University of Vienna) gave a talk during an extended EPIC research group seminar at the CWTS in Leiden. Fochler posed a crucial and critical question regarding knowledge production in the …

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In Search of Excellence? Debating the Merits of Introducing an Elite Dutch University Model

by Sarah de Rijcke 12 Dec 2014

Report by Alex Rushforth Should the Netherlands strive for excellence in its university systems? Will maintaining quality suffice? This was the topic of a recent panel debate at the WTMC annual meeting on 21 November 2014 in De Balie, Amsterdam. Organi…

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Ethics and misconduct – Review of a play organized by the Young Academy (KNAW)

by Sarah de Rijcke 24 Nov 2014

This is a guest blog post by Joost Kosten. Joost is PhD student at CWTS and member of the EPIC working group. His research focuses on the use of research indicators from the perspective of public policy. Joost obtained an MSc in Public Administrat…

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Quality in the age of the impact factor

by Paul Wouters 28 Oct 2014

ISIS, the most prestigious journal in the history of science, moved house last September and its central office is now located at the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities at Utrecht University. The Dutch scienc…

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Developing guiding principles and standards in the field of evaluation – lessons learned

by Sarah de Rijcke 7 Oct 2014

This is a guest blog post by professor Peter Dahler-Larsen. The reflections below are a follow-up of his keynote at the STI conference in Leiden (3-5 September 2014) and the special session at STI on the development of quality standards for science &#3…

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The Leiden manifesto in the making: proposal of a set of principles on the use of assessment metrics in the S&T indicators conference

by Sarah de Rijcke 15 Sep 2014

Summary A set of guiding principles (a manifesto) on the use of quantitative metrics in research assessment was proposed by Diana Hicks (Georgia Tech) during a panel session on quality standards for S&T indicators at the STI conference in Leiden la…

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ACUMEN Portfolio reveals a schism in academic evaluation

by Frank van der Most 29 Aug 2014

Frank van der Most August 2014 In January this year, the ACUMEN (Academic Careers Understood through MEasurements and Norms) project finished the last of three feed-back workshops which it had organized to test the main deliverables of the project. The…

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A key challenge: the evaluation gap

by Paul Wouters 28 Aug 2014

What are the best ways to evaluate research? This question has received renewed interest in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The dynamics in research, the increased availability of data about research, as well as the rise of the web as infr…

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