Guidance for research organisations on how to implement responsible and fair approaches for research assessment | Wellcome

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Summary:

"Our open access policy 2021 requires Wellcome-funded organisations to publicly commit to:

  • assessing research outputs and other research contributions based on their intrinsic merit 
  • discouraging the inappropriate use of proxies or metrics – such as the title or impact factor of the journal in which the work was published.

We believe that research assessment processes used by research organisations and funders in making recruitment, promotion and funding decisions should embody two core principles (‘the principles’) as set out in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)(opens in a new tab):  

  1. be explicit about the criteria used to evaluate scientific productivity, and clearly highlight that the scientific content of a paper is more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it is published
  2. recognise the value of all relevant research outputs (for example publications, datasets and software), as well as other types of contributions, such as training early-career researchers and influencing policy and practice....."

Link:

https://wellcome.ac.uk/grant-funding/guidance/research-organisations-how-implement-responsible-and-fair-approaches-research

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Date tagged:

07/15/2020, 13:22

Date published:

07/15/2020, 09:22