Challenges in Research Policy: Evidence-Based Policy Briefs with Recommendations
About this ebook
- Identifying and facilitating high quality research
- Evaluating transdisciplinary research quality
- Evaluating societal impact
- The dilemmas of grant peer review
- How citations relate to research quality
- Reforming research assessment
- The use of metrics in academic recruitment
- Quality criteria and concentration of research funding
- Balancing basic and external research funding
- Designing performance-based research funding systems
- Strategic steering of research at universities
- The consequences of paying to publish
Each chapter combines research with practical advice and provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in research on the specific topic, as well as references for further reading.
About the author
Gunnar Sivertsen is Research Professor at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), Oslo, Norway. Sivertsen’s research contributes to science-based innovation in the development of research evaluation, research funding, and the use of indicators. He has advised the development of the research evaluation and funding systems in several countries.
Liv Langfeldt is Research Professor at Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), Oslo, Norway. She has extensive experiences in the study and evaluation of peer review procedures. Langfeldt has been in charge of evaluations of funding schemes and their review process in several countries.
