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Why Metrics Cannot Measure Research Quality: A Response to the HEFCE Consultation
An important post on HEFCE consultation and research metrics in the UK
The Higher Education Funding Council for England are reviewing the idea of using metrics (or citation counts) in research assessment. We think using metrics to measure research quality is a terrible idea, and we’ll be sending the response to them below explaining why. The deadline for receiving responses is 12pm on Monday 30th June (to metrics@hefce.ac.uk). If you want to add an endorsement to this paper to be added to what we send to HEFCE, please write your name, role and institutional affiliation below in the comments, or email either ms140[at]soas.ac.uk or p.c.kirby[at]sussex.ac.uk before Saturday 28th June. If you want to write your own response, please feel free to borrow as you like from the ideas below, or append the PDF version of our paper available here.
Response to the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment
June 2014
Authored by:
Dr Meera Sabaratnam, Lecturer…
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