Research Evaluation

1991 - 2025

Current editor(s): Julia Melkers, Emanuela Reale and Thed van Leeuwen

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2025, volume 34

The cost of deception: pseudo-journals and exploitative article processing charges pp. 4

John Bhasker and Rajadurai Vijay Solomon

Proving research misconduct pp. 7-24

Olivier Leclerc

Using contribution mapping to evaluate the research impact of Universities of Applied Sciences pp. 8-16

Sarah K Coombs, Peter Meister-Broekema and Ingeborg Meijer

One size fits all? A comparative review of policy-making in the area of research impact evaluation in the UK, Poland and Norway pp. 19-32

Marta Natalia Wróblewska

The development and application of a bibliometric strength, potential and risk analysis for research strategy in a University Medical Center pp. scw058-31

Rik Iping, Thed N van Leeuwen, Ed Noyons, Alex Burdorf, Irene M J Mathijssen, Johannes P T M van Leeuwen and Adrian M Cohen

Evaluating in times of paradigmatic change: some reflections on how to conduct ex-post evaluations amidst the transformative turn in research and innovation policy pp. 59-86

Harald Wieser

Meeting evaluation criteria based on authorship positions by gender, academic age, and research field: the Spanish case pp. 71-4

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Manuel Escabias and Fernanda Morillo

A consistent solution to the university diversity pp. 89-97

Yuan Cui, Xiao-Xi Xiao, Zhi-Li Zhan and Guo-Liang Yang

Has mainstreaming gender in research policy increased research with a gender perspective? pp. 120-32

Solveig Osborg Ose, Henrik Karlstrøm, Kari Sand and Eva Lassemo

Sceptics and champions: participant insights on the use of partial randomization to allocate research culture funding pp. 154-78

Catherine Davies and Holly Ingram

Development and pilot study of a university research culture questionnaire pp. 172-89

Ruby Roberts, Rhona Flin, Andrew J Lamb, Jane Williams and Nick Fyfe

How do decision-makers in academic promotion perceive the novel scientometric evaluation in Egypt? pp. 250-62

Mona Farouk Ali

Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study pp. 276-304

André Brasil and Joviles Vitório Trevisol

Canadian approaches to research impact and its assessment pp. 597-606

David Phipps, Kathryn Graham and Eddy Nason

Rapid assessment of crisis response using a new semi-automatic iterative method—how national research systems address the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic pp. 671-3

Philipp Baaden, Vanessa Hollmann and Miloš Jovanović

Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries pp. 895-905

Kate Williams and Sandra Michalska

R&D performance evaluation and analysis under uncertainty: the case of Chinese industrial enterprises pp. 1261-4

Jiang Li, Chen Zhu and Mark Goh

Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender pp. 2613-9

Rachel Heyard, Sandar Lim and Anne Jorstad

Read this somewhere before? A critical perspective on mobilizing evidence for improvement via communities of practice in urgent contexts pp. e31791-9

Simon Turner

An exploratory analysis of the operational restrictions of virtual peer review panels pp. 103785-53

G E Derrick

Does new public management repel talent? Findings from a choice experiment among German researchers pp. e0249127-70

Torben Schubert, Henning Kroll, Maria Karaulova and Knut Blind

2024, volume 33, articles 1

Funding lotteries for research grant allocation: An extended taxonomy and evaluation of their fairness pp. 14-5

Thomas Feliciani, Junwen Luo and Kalpana Shankar

Unpacking the discourse surrounding the impact agenda in the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020 pp. 147-67

Danling Li, William Yat Wai Lo and Rui Yang

Where do field-specific notions of research quality come from? pp. 166-88

Grit Laudel

Transfer versus co-production: Knowledge as ‘MEANS’ to sustainability as an ‘END’ pp. 207-30

Nour Chams, Bouali Guesmi, Mireia Molins i Folch, Rosa Cubel and Jose Maria Gil Roig

2024, volume 33

An openness framework for ex ante evaluation of societal impact of research pp. 150-7

Paul Benneworth and Julia Olmos-Peñuela

Changing conceptualization of innovation in the European Union and its impact on universities: Critical junctures and evolving institutional demands pp. 191-200

Ridvan Cinar, Paul Benneworth and Lars CoenenMohn

Measuring the effects of the social rural university campus pp. 250-64

Paul Benneworth, Kate Maxwell and David Charles

The conflict of impact for early career researchers planning for a future in the academy pp. 263-89

Marta Natalia Wróblewska, Corina Balaban, Gemma Derrick and Paul Benneworth

The missing links of research impact pp. 312-3

David Budtz Pedersen and Rolf Hvidtfeldt

The forms of societal interaction in the social sciences, humanities and arts: Below the tip of the iceberg pp. 408-22

Elea Giménez-Toledo, Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Elena Castro-Martínez and François Perruchas

Societal interaction plans—A tool for enhancing societal engagement of strategic research in Finland pp. 508-27

Kirsi Pulkkinen, Timo Aarrevaara, Mikko Rask and Markku Mattila

A tribute to our dearly departed colleague and friend: An introduction to the Special Issue in memory of Prof. Paul Benneworth

G E Derrick, J Olmos-Peñuela and S P L de Jong

2024, volume 32, articles 4

Peer review’s irremediable flaws: Scientists’ perspectives on grant evaluation in Germany pp. 623-634

Eva Barlösius, Laura Paruschke and Axel Philipps

Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity pp. 635-647

Oskar Marg and Lena Theiler

Targeted, actionable and fair: Reviewer reports as feedback and its effect on ECR career choices pp. 648-657

Gemma Elizabeth Derrick, Alessandra Zimmermann, Helen Greaves, Jonathan Best and Richard Klavans

Individual and organizational effects of international mobility policy: Effects of Mexico’s Scholarship Program in nanotechnology pp. 658-669

Mayra M Tirado

The legal foundation of responsible research assessment: An overview on European Union and Italy pp. 670-682

Ginevra Peruginelli and Janne Pölönen

In the eye of beholder? The notions of quality in the humanities pp. 683-692

Aldis Gedutis and Kęstas Kirtiklis

Evaluation of economic incentives for Chinese university patent transfers: Is increasing the inventor share rate more effective? pp. 693-704

Xuhua Chang, Lei Gong and Yali Zhu

2023, volume 32, articles 3

Do funding modes matter? A multilevel analysis of funding allocation mechanisms on university research performance pp. 545-556

Thomas Zacharewicz, Noemi Pulido Pavón, Luis Antonio and Benedetto Lepori

Warnings of declining research productivity: Does Italy buck the trend? pp. 557-565

Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea

The effect of applied research institutes on invention: Evidence from the Fraunhofer centres in Europe pp. 566-576

Pedro Llanos-Paredes

Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment pp. 577-590

Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco, Jordi Molas-Gallart and Johan Schot

Research impact seen from the user side pp. 591-602

Richard Woolley and Jordi Molas-Gallart

Theory of systems change: An initial, middle-range theory of public health research impact pp. 603-621

Melinda Craike, Bojana Klepac, Amy Mowle and Therese Riley

2023, volume 32, articles 2

Stated preference methods and STI policy studies: a foreground approach pp. 171-187

Víctor Gómez-Valenzuela

Describing the state of a research network: A mixed methods approach to network evaluation pp. 188-199

James M Bowen, Mathieu Ouimet, Justin Lawarée, Joanna Bielecki, Ashley Rhéaume, Caylee Greenberg and Valeria E

Using theory to understand how policy change happens: Insights from agricultural research for development pp. 200-212

Boru Douthwaite, Claudio Proietti, Vivian Polar and Graham Thiele

Pathway profiles: Learning from five main approaches to assessing interdisciplinarity pp. 213-227

Bethany K, Nicole Motzer and Kelly J

Open Editors: A dataset of scholarly journals’ editorial board positions pp. 228-243

Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher, Tamara Heck and Kerstin Schoch

Turning academics into researchers: The development of National Researcher Categorization Systems in Latin America pp. 244-255

Federico Vasen, Nerina F, Silvina A, Brenda D and Manuel Pintos

Methods for measuring social and conceptual dimensions of convergence science pp. 256-272

Alexander Michael, Felber Arroyave and Ioannis Pavlidis

How unpredictable is research impact? Evidence from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework pp. 273-285

Ohid Yaqub, Dmitry Malkov and Josh Siepel

Evaluating co-creation in social innovation projects: Towards a process orientated framework for EU projects and beyond pp. 286-298

Peter Meister, Elisabeth A M and Lummina G

The price of quality: Scholarly publishing business is the primary predictor of citation-based indicators of journal performance in ecology and evolutionary biology pp. 299-312

Adriana Ruggiero

Promoting narrative CVs to improve research evaluation? A review of opinion pieces and experiments pp. 313-320

Frédérique Bordignon, Lauranne Chaignon and Daniel Egret

Gender diversity and publication activity—an analysis of STEM in the UK pp. 321-331

Yasaman Sarabi and Matthew Smith

The rocky road to translational science: An analysis of Clinical and Translational Science Awards pp. 332-347

Yeon Hak, You-Na Lee and Seokkyun Woo

From intent to impact—The decline of broader impacts throughout an NSF project life cycle pp. 348-355

Thomas Woodson and Sophia Boutilier

Prestige of scholarly book publishers—An investigation into criteria, processes, and practices across countries pp. 356-370

Eleonora Dagienė

Assessing university policies for enhancing societal impact of academic research: A multicriteria mapping approach pp. 371-383

Rosa Kuipers-Dirven, Matthijs Janssen and Jarno Hoekman

Predicting future publishing success among sociologists at time of hire in the US Higher education system pp. 384-394

Joseph C Hermanowicz and Christopher P

Research impact as understood by two funders of agricultural research in South Africa pp. 395-411

Harrie Esterhuyse and Nelius Boshoff

ASIRPAReal-Time in the making or how to empower researchers to steer research towards desired societal goals pp. 412-425

Mireille MattLISIS—Université, Douglas K R, Pierre-Benoît Joly, Renée Van Dis and Laurence Colinet

Assessing the variety of collaborative practices in translational research: An analysis of scientists’ ego-networks pp. 426-440

Adrián A, Oscar Llopis, Pablo D’Este and Jordi Molas-Gallart

On the societal impact of publicly funded Circular Bioeconomy research in Europe pp. 441-457

Ana Sofia and José M R C A

Early career academic's odyssey: A narrative study of her professional identity construction pp. 458-466

Javier Mula-Falcón and Katia Caballero

Improving universities’ activities in academic startup support through public interventions: The effectiveness of the German programme ‘EXIST—leverage of potentials’ pp. 467-483

Christoph E Mueller

The nexus between research impact and sustainability assessment: From stakeholders’ perspective pp. 484-495

Nour Chams, Bouali Guesmi and José María

Valuation regimes in academia: Researchers’ attitudes towards their diversity of activities and academic performance pp. 496-514

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Gabriela F and Thed N van

Boundary-work and social closure in academic recruitment: Insights from the transdisciplinary subject area Swedish as a Second Language pp. 515-525

Natalia Ganuza and Linus Salö

Can journal reviewers dependably assess rigour, significance, and originality in theoretical papers? Evidence from physics pp. 526-542

Mike Thelwall and Janusz A Hołyst

2023, volume 32, articles 1

Voices from the field pp. 1-1

Julia Melkers, Emanuela Reale and Thed van Leeuwen

Tilting at twin windmills: On article quotas and journal impact factors pp. 2-3

Joseph E Serafy

When publication metrics become the fetish: The research evaluation systems’ relationship with academic work engagement and burnout pp. 4-18

Konrad Kulikowski, Sylwia Przytuła and Łukasz Sułkowski

Evaluation of the arts in performance-based research funding systems: An international perspective pp. 19-31

Kamila Lewandowska, Emanuel Kulczycki and Michael Ochsner

The footprint of a metrics-based research evaluation system on Spain’s philosophical scholarship: An analysis of researchers’ perceptions pp. 32-46

Ramón A Feenstra and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar

The impact of Italian performance-based research funding systems on the intensity of international research collaboration pp. 47-57

Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo

S&T resource allocation considering both performance and potential: The case of Chinese research institutes pp. 58-69

Teng-Yu Zhao|, Ruimin Pei and Guo-Liang Yang

Quis judicabit ipsos judices? A case study on the dynamics of competitive funding panel evaluations pp. 70-85

João M Santos

Peer review in funding-by-lottery: A systematic overview and expansion pp. 86-100

Jamie Shaw

What makes databases tick: Logics that underpin national databases for research output in Europe pp. 101-115

Linda Sīle and Sarah de Rijcke

Research governance and the dynamics of science: A framework for the study of governance effects on research fields pp. 116-127

Maria Nedeva, Mayra M Tirado and Duncan A Thomas

Toward a modular evaluation approach of real-world laboratories: Findings from a literature review pp. 128-143

Teresa Kampfmann, Philip Bernert and Daniel J Lang

Explaining employment sector choices of doctoral graduates in Germany pp. 144-156

Lea Goldan, Steffen Jaksztat and Christiane Gross

Globalization of scientific communication: Evidence from authors in academic journals by country of origin pp. 157-169

Vít Macháček