In Metrics We Trust? Prospects and Pitfalls of the New Research Metrics

Conference
  • Session
  • 15:30 - 15:30
  • Duration: 33 mins
  • Publication date: 31 Mar 2015
  • Location: Lomond Auditorium, SECC, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Part of series UKSG and Part of event UKSG 2015

About the session

 15.00pm, Monday 30th March 2015

James Wilsdon
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex /
Chair, Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment.

 In April 2014 the Minister of State for Universities and Science launched a review of the role of metrics in research assessment. The review is chaired by Professor James Wilsdon (University of Sussex) and supported by an independent steering group, with the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) providing the secretariat. In 2008-09 HEFCE ran a pilot exercise to test the potential for using bibliometric indicators of research quality in the Research Excellence Framework (REF). At that time it was concluded that citation information was insufficiently robust to be used formulaically or as a primary indicator of quality, but that there might be scope for it to inform and enhance processes of expert review.

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