I spoke at a conference on the subject of research publication and assessment in Denmark at the end of January, giving an overview of the UK’s perspective. …
‘Impact’ has been the word of the year in higher education research policy - Impact Plans, Impact Assessment, Impact Pilots. As funding cuts loom, the Treasury is looking to justify the investment of tax-payers’ money in research.…
This report looks at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increase in collaboration and co-authorship.…
As part of my internship at RIN, on July 16th I attended a conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences, simply entitled Research Impact Conference.…
A new RIN report explains how the differences in the figures for the UK’s percentage share of the global production of scientific publications arise and the implications for policy-makers.…
A new RIN report highlights important issues both for those who produce bibliometric analyses of research performance and for those who commission and make use of such work.…
We hosted a stand the ARMA 2009 conference ‘Reviewing the future’ this week and I think this was a very useful and interesting event for us.…
We are asking researchers to complete a short questionnaire about publication, dissemination and citation practice.…
Much has been made, following the RAE2008 announcement at the end of last year, about the challenge of funding the aspirations of the large research-intensive institutions (Russell Group et al) as well as the ambitions of the smaller HEIs with pockets …
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the DIUS (JISC) hosted Higher Education blog, which was developed with the aim to facilitate discussions leading to the development of a framework policy for UK Higher Education.…
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