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Measure Your Research Impact: Resources for Responsible Research Evaluation
Learn how to measure the impact of your research.
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Responsible Metrics Resources
Applying principles of research evaluation best practices or "responsible metrics" is critical to ensuring that research impact assessment work is rigorous, transparent, and ethical so that metrics are appropriately interpreted and applied. The resources below introduce and provide guidance on applying responsible metrics principles.
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Leiden Manifesto (2015)Nature publication describing 10 principles to guide research evaluation.
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DORA (updated 2024)The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. (Source: DORA website)
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Metric Tide (2015)The metric tide is an independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management. (SOurce: Metric Tide website)
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More Than Our Rank Initiative (inorms)The More Than Our Rank initiative has been developed in response to some of the problematic features and effects of the global university rankings. It provides an opportunity for academic institutions to highlight the many and various ways they serve the world that are not reflected in their ranking position. (Source: inorms website)
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SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation (inorms)The SCOPE framework for research evaluation is a five-stage model for evaluating responsibly. It is a practical step-by-step process designed to help research managers, or anyone involved in conducting research evaluations, in planning new evaluations as well as check existing evaluations. (source SCOPE website)
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Metrics ToolkitLearn more about specific research impact metrics and what they measure. (Source: Metrics Toolkit website)