Making research assessment fairer – What are responsible metrics?

Universities, research teams, and individual researchers all want their research achievements and capabilities to be recognised fairly. Increasingly ‘metrics’ - quantitative indicators, like journal impact factors or university rankings – have become the go-to proxies for assessing research quality and scientific contributions. But metrics can also misrepresent and disadvantage researchers, distorting the work they choose to do, or where they choose to publish it, and holding back careers or whole disciplines.

The Responsible Metrics movement, furthered by collaborative agreements such as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and the Leiden Manifesto, have tried to reverse this trend – aiming to ensure metrics are used in context, and alongside more qualitative and peer-assessed judgements of research.

This interactive learning session will:

• Introduce the core principles and aims of the Responsible Metrics movement
• Explore awareness and share experiences of the negative impacts of research metrics, especially for judging individual researchers
• Consider how the responsible metrics and open research agendas complement each other
• Describe recent developments and opportunities for increasing the use of responsible metrics in university contexts (e.g. narrative CVs, Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA))

Who is the session for?

Any University-based researchers, postgraduate research students, technician staff and professional services colleagues, who are interested in understanding how research and researchers are judged – and how, together, we can help the shift towards fairer assessments in the future.

To register

To register for the workshop, please click on the 'register' link at the top of this page. Your e-ticket will be emailed which will contain a Zoom link to the workshop.

If you have any queries, please email Rebecca Euesden r.s.euesden@exeter.ac.uk

www.exeter.ac.uk/responsiblemetrics

Please note that the workshop may be recorded.

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