Challenges in Research Policy
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-69579-7 (ISBN)
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This open access volume addresses major challenges in research policy and provides advice on how to approach them. With chapters designed as accessible policy briefs, the book serves as an essential resource for new actors in research policy. It offers evidence-based recommendations on approaching research governance, funding, and evaluation challenges by covering these topics:
- Identifying and facilitating high quality research
- Evaluating transdisciplinary research quality
- Evaluating societal impact
- The dilemmas of grant peer review
- How citations relate to research quality
- Reforming research assessment
- The use of metrics in academic recruitment
- Quality criteria and concentration of research funding
- Balancing basic and external research funding
- Designing performance-based research funding systems
- Strategic steering of research at universities
- The consequences of paying to publish
Each chapter combines research with practical advice and provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in research on the specific topic, as well as references for further reading.
Gunnar Sivertsen is Research Professor at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), Oslo, Norway. Sivertsen's research contributes to science-based innovation in the development of research evaluation, research funding, and the use of indicators. He has advised the development of the research evaluation and funding systems in several countries.
Liv Langfeldt is Research Professor at Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), Oslo, Norway. She has extensive experiences in the study and evaluation of peer review procedures. Langfeldt has been in charge of evaluations of funding schemes and their review process in several countries.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Notions of Research Quality and Evaluation of Research.- Chapter 2. Identifying and Facilitating High Quality Research.- Chapter 3. Evaluating Transdisciplinary Research Quality.- Chapter 4. Evaluating and Improving the Societal Impact of Research.- Chapter 5. The Many Dilemmas of Grant Peer Review.- Chapter 6. How Citations Relate to Research Quality.- Chapter 7. The Ongoing Reform of Research Assessment.- Chapter 8. The Use of Metrics in Academic Recruitment.- Part II: Research Funding and Governance.- Chapter 9. Quality Criteria and Concentration of Research Funding.- Chapter 10. Balancing Basic and External Research Funding: a Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 11. Designing Performance-based Research Funding Systems.- Chapter 12. The Limits of Universities' Strategic Capacity for Steering Research.- Chapter 13. The Consequences of Paying to Publish.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.10.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | SpringerBriefs in Political Science |
Zusatzinfo | Approx. 100 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Schlagworte | academic recruitment • citations • Grant peer review • High-quality research • metrics • open access • Open access publishing • performance-based funding • Quality Criteria • Research evaluation • Research Funding • Research Governance • Research policy • Research-society relations • University strategy |
ISBN-10 | 3-031-69579-8 / 3031695798 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-69579-7 / 9783031695797 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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