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This considers researchers’ desire to develop new knowledge and understanding of the world and to communicate their findings to others. …
Just in case anyone is wondering, my previous blog entry on the Research Excellence Framework wasn’t entirely truthful, and may have been influenced by the date it was published on.…
Last week, the Higher Education Funding Councils announced the outcome of the consultations on the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and set out some preliminary decisions on aspects of the design of the REF.…
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.…
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