It is several years since national research evaluation systems around the globe started
making use of quantitative indicators to measure the performance of researchers …

There is a crisis of valuation practices in the current academic life sciences, triggered by
unsustainable growth and “hyper-competition.” Quantitative metrics in evaluating …

Interdisciplinary collaboration has become mainstream practice for sustainability
researchers. However, interdisciplinary research teams encounter numerous challenges for …

While quantitative performance indicators are widely used by organizations and individuals
for evaluative purposes, little is known about their impacts on the epistemic processes of …

In the wake of contemporary new public management, the temporalities of academic work
have undergone significant transformations. One key feature of these changes is a …

We propose a framework to describe, analyze, and explain the conditions under which
scientific communities organize themselves to do research, particularly within large-scale …

The range and types of performance metrics has recently proliferated in academic settings,
with bibliometric indicators being particularly visible examples. One field that has …

Evaluation of university-based research already has a reasonably long tradition in the UK,
but proposals to revise the framework for national evaluation aroused controversy in the …

Science policies and science studies largely share an understanding of scientific knowledge
and objects as immutable mobiles. This article shows how the analysis of research …

Over past decades we have witnessed considerable debate questioning the capacity of
contemporary research to address the challenges posed by complex societal developments …