The Future of Indicators for Research Assessment and Open Science. Doing away with quantitative indicators | hc:69603 | Humanities CORE

Abstract:  I unfold the argument for a research assessment based on 'research behaviour' (e.g. knowledge sharing and collaboration) rather than solely on research outputs in bibliometric terms (e.g, number of publications, citation counts etc), reflecting a more open science practice. Quantitative assessments are any case not appropriate for assessing the quality of scientific research and by definition also subject to manipulation. More important though, is that the use of quantitative indicators incentives researchers to become more 'productive' in terms of scientific outputs (e.g publications) but makes the system of science in productive as the latter has to rely on social collaboration among scientist and other knowledge producers.