Tread carefully with altmetrics, European Commission told | Times Higher Education (THE)

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Summary:

"Alternative metrics should be used by the European Commission alongside expert judgement and other measures of research quality, according to a new report.

The report cautions against relying too heavily on new ways of measuring research when developing the open science agenda in Europe....The group, led by James Wilsdon, professor of research policy at the University of Sheffield, came to its conclusions by reviewing the literature and evidence submitted to it about how new metrics could help to advance the work on opening up European science...."

Link:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tread-carefully-altmetrics-european-commission-told

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Date tagged:

03/31/2017, 14:24

Date published:

03/31/2017, 10:24