League of European Research Universities paper recommends using multiple perspectives to evaluate individual researchers
Assessment of individual researchers should be made ‘healthier’ and more effective by broadening it out to include more qualitative considerations, including the context in which people are working and how they work with others, a university group has suggested.
The ideas were presented in a paper published on 27 January by the League of European Research Universities. They add to a growing push to change how assessment is carried out, with much of the community agreeing on the need to move away from an over-reliance on narrow quantitative metrics, such as around researchers’ publications.