Research Evaluation

1991 - 2025

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

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2025, volume 34

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

Simon Turner

How do decision-makers in academic promotion perceive the novel scientometric evaluation in Egypt?

Mona Farouk Ali

Repertoires of research value: performing societal impact across countries

Kate Williams and Sandra Michalska

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

Harald Wieser

An exploratory analysis of the operational restrictions of virtual peer review panels

G E Derrick

Using contribution mapping to evaluate the research impact of Universities of Applied Sciences

Sarah K Coombs, Peter Meister-Broekema and Ingeborg Meijer

Cross-sectional analysis of self-promotional language in texts of grant proposals across gender

Rachel Heyard, Sandar Lim and Anne Jorstad

Canadian approaches to research impact and its assessment

David Phipps, Kathryn Graham and Eddy Nason

Proving research misconduct

Olivier Leclerc

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

Philipp Baaden, Vanessa Hollmann and Miloš Jovanović

Sceptics and champions: participant insights on the use of partial randomization to allocate research culture funding

Catherine Davies and Holly Ingram

The development and application of a bibliometric strength, potential and risk analysis for research strategy in a University Medical Center

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

Meeting evaluation criteria based on authorship positions by gender, academic age, and research field: the Spanish case

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Manuel Escabias and Fernanda Morillo

A consistent solution to the university diversity

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

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

Marta Natalia Wróblewska

Development and pilot study of a university research culture questionnaire

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

R&D performance evaluation and analysis under uncertainty: the case of Chinese industrial enterprises

Jiang Li, Chen Zhu and Mark Goh

Research evaluation in Brazil and the Netherlands: a comparative study

André Brasil and Joviles Vitório Trevisol

Has mainstreaming gender in research policy increased research with a gender perspective?

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

Does new public management repel talent? Findings from a choice experiment among German researchers

Torben Schubert, Henning Kroll, Maria Karaulova and Knut Blind

How does humanities and social sciences (HSS) research benefit society?

Sepehr Ghazinoory, Elnaz Mesma Khosroshahi, Abolghasem Sarabadani, Mahdi Pakzad and Mehdi Fatemi

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

John Bhasker and Rajadurai Vijay Solomon

The impact of a publisher list on publication patterns: evidence from Poland

Gabriela Dzięgiel, Emanuel Kulczycki, Anna Maziarczyk and Przemysław Korytkowski

Linking science and industry: influence of scientific research on technological innovation through patent citations

Pablo Dorta-González, Alejandro Rodríguez-Caro and María Isabel Dorta-González

Analyzing h-index patterns through clustering among researchers in Sinaloa, Mexico

Emiliano Teran

A typology of peer-reviewers: role, characteristics, and egoistic and altruistic perspectives

Hugo Horta and João M Santos

Understanding the impact of knowledge brokering organizations: the case of the UK What Works Centres

Paul Vallance, Eleanor MacKillop, James Downe and Greg Notman

Efficiency evaluation of scientific data sharing platforms in serving research considering heterogeneity based on DEA: a case study of national science data centers in China

Yuxin Gao, Qiuhong Zhao, Guoliang Yang, Xianrui Yu and Yanchun Ma

CoARA will not save science from the tyranny of administrative evaluation

Alberto Baccini

From rejection to redirection: reimagining the culture of academic publishing

Abdulqadir J Nashwan and Sirwan Khalid Ahmed

From disruptive to consolidating: the role of declining journal impact factors quartiles in shaping research innovation

Yingqun Li, Ningyuan Song, Kejun Chen, Ye Chen and Lei Pei

Simultaneous submissions without simultaneous peer review

Stewart Manley

How impact-focused funding influences researchers’ knowledge mobilization activities

Stephen MacGregor, Creso Sá and Nadiia Kachynska

How societal impact is understood and approached across a newly formed community of researchers with an ambitious ‘health of the public’ agenda

Jack G Martin, Daniel Black and John Coggon

Peer review across borders: benefits and challenges of international review panels in research funding organizations

Helen Peterson and Liisa Husu

Evaluating the cross-disciplinary utility of anonymizing applications for scientific equipment in the Australian research sector

Isabelle Kingsley, Nicholas Ho, Amanda B Chan, Lisa Harvey-Smith and Lisa A Williams

Performance-based research funding and its impacts on research performance

Jung-Cheol Shin, Hyun-Ki Shim, Su-Jin Kim and Pyung-Gu Lee

Failures in impact evaluation

Leila Jancovich, Ceri Pitches and David Stevenson

Evaluation as a source of unhappiness in academia—unpacking the boundaries of responsible research assessment

Reetta Muhonen and Laura Himanen

Beyond impact factors? Lessons from the Dutch attempt to transform academic research assessment

Alexander Rushforth

The cultural impact of the impact agenda in Australia, UK and USA

Eliel Cohen, Kate Williams and Jonathan Grant

Partial and particularistic: grant peer review panels evaluating interdisciplinarity

Kristin Oxley

Making transdisciplinary funding more effective: lessons from a literature review and focus group interviews

Stephanie Meirmans, Jean Philippe de Jong and Herman Paul

Gender gaps in the promotion of mid-career university academic staff: a meta-analytic study

Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez, Carmen Araneda-Guirriman and Gabriel Peñaloza Diaz

Establishing a framework to assess the contribution of regional research topics to sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Antonio González Valverde, Miriam Tomás-López and Daniel Torres-Salinas

University scientific coproduction becomes more social in economic crisis

Joaquín M Azagra-Caro and Alfredo Yegros-Yegros

Equality and employment aspects of the UK Research Excellence Framework

James Hand

Peer review research assessment: are the reviewers really experts?

Giovanni Abramo and Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo

From knowledge to impact: tracing stakeholder engagement pathways within different research areas

Zuorong Wang, Hongcun Gong, Qi Zhang, Hao Wang and Sanhong Deng

The 2015–2019 VQR, Italy’s Third National Research Assessment: an intended informed peer review or a DIY bibliometric exercise?

Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo

The Clarity Ledger for Evaluation and Applied Research Reporting (CLEAR-R)

Elizabeth-Rose Ahearn, Christine Ablaza, Rose-Marie Stambe and Cameron Parsell

Meetings that matter: the dual benefits of panel peer review

Kristin Oxley

Gender gaps in the peer review process. Different sources in the evaluation process for the allocation of grants in Argentina

Florencia Fiorentin and Diana Suarez

Are domestic academic publications in China’s social sciences increasingly concentrated among scientific elites? Evidence from top CSSCI economics journals (2010–2023)

Yang Zhang, Kun Zhang, Zhiyi Huang, Yufei Gan, Mengxue Xu and Xinyi Zhang

Access models and citation impact across disciplines in Ukrainian scholarly publishing before and during Russia’s full-scale war (2020-2023)

Myroslava Hladchenko

Do research fellowships impact future earnings? Evidence from the São Paulo Research Foundation

Daniel Gama e Colombo and Fernanda De Negri

Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality

Chloe Patton

Impact types and approaches in assessing research impact: from a scoping review to a comprehensive framework

Tugce Ataci, Júlia Vilasís-Pamos and Florence Allard-Poesi

Acknowledged organizations in biomedical and life sciences research: a large-scale analysis of classification, citation, and topic evolution

Qing Xie, Tatsawan Timakum, Xinyuan Zhang and Min Song