Challenges in Research Policy

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.