Wouters, Paul

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    ACUMEN: A Multi-Dimensional Researcher Portfolio. Evaluation Standards and their Dilemmas
    (euroCRIS, 2014-11-12)
    The presentation addresses the need to improve current research evaluation practices and argues that quantitative evaluation strategies based on network analysis, text mining and visualisation techniques should be used as a complement to traditional qualitative evaluation. Such improvement on evaluation techniques should strongly benefit from the standardised environment arising from an ever growing system interoperability, while at the same time the ACUMEN project proposes empowering researchers through a tailor-made evaluation process.
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    ACUMEN Portfolio: Resources for Evaluation of Individual Researchers
    (euroCRIS, 2013-11-14)
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    Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) is an FP7 collaborative research project that addresses discrepancies between the criteria used in performance assessment of individual researchers and the broader social and economic function of scientific and scholarly research. Problems associated with these discrepancies include: lack of resources for qualitative evaluation due to increased scale of research; available quantitative measures are often not applicable at the individual level; lack of recognition for new types of work that researchers need to perform. As a result of these limitations, the broader social functions of the scientific system are often not included in its quality control mechanisms. This presentation introduces ACUMEN's proposed researcher portfolio concept along with guidelines for good evaluation practices, both of which incorporate: 1) results of a comparative study of peer review systems in Europe; 2) taxonomy of quantitative performance indicators appropriate for evaluation of individuals; and 3) evaluation guidelines associated with gender dimensions, diversity of evaluation contexts among European countries, and disciplinary differences.