Debates about appropriate, fair and effective ways of assessing research and researchers
have raged through the scientific community for decades, recently mostly concerned with …

This literature review examines the application of informetric methods to assess diversity
within the scientific workforce, focusing on recent advances in author name disambiguation …

Competition is usually considered a mechanism for the allocation of scarce resources. This
paper draws attention to a neglected effect of academic competition: competition provides …

Whereas a growing number of studies evidence that research quality notions and evaluative
practices are field-and context-specific, many focus on single evaluative practices or …

In response to the escalating reliance on bibliometrics for research evaluation within
Chinese universities, this study delves into the far-reaching impact of this trend. Through …

Considering the specific nature of humanities and their fields and the need to design
scientific outputs in proportion to these fields, the present study has sought to determine …

Various aspects of academic careers are studied using academic age as a proxy for the
chronological age. The limitation of this metric is that it does not consider a wide range of …

Does quality in research affect how universities matter? Expectations of how universities
should matter to society have increased over time. This is particularly true with regard to the …

Research (er) assessment is currently under reform. For example, the CoARA initiative aims
at building critical mass to change assessment systems to lean more on qualitative …

Introducción: La presente revisión sistemática tiene como objetivo explorar las actitudes de
los investigadores hacia la publicación académica, identificando sus creencias y conceptos; …