Evaluation of research in context: an approach and two cases

Jong, Stefan de; Arensbergen, P. van; Daemen, F.; Meulen, Barend van der; Besselaar, Peter van den

doi:10.3152/095820211x12941371876346

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“…De Jong et al 2011;Laredo and Mustar 2000). Scholarly networks can stimulate academic careers, but science-industry relations do not (van Rijnsoever et al 2008).…”

Section: Network Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Baird 1986;Crane 1972;Martin and Irvine 1983;Neuhaus and Daniel 2009;Schubert and Braun 1996;Van Raan 2004;Whitley 2000). As a result, performance can only be evaluated in an appropriate context (Bornmann et al 2008;De Jong et al 2011).…”

Section: Environmental Conditionsmentioning

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“…Also quality is multidimensional and can be measured in terms of productivity, impact, innovativeness, creativity, societal relevance, and recognition. Furthermore, performance should be evaluated in terms of the groups' mission, and in relation to expectations about field-specific appropriate scholarly and societal performance (De Jong et al 2011). As group leaders need to deploy different strategies to achieve different research goals (van der Weijden et al 2008b), managing research groups becomes complex.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Organizational factors influencing scholarly performance: a multivariate study of biomedical research groups

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Horlings

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Bibliometric studies often measure and compare scholarly performance, but they rarely investigate why universities, departments, and research groups do have different performance. In this paper we try to explain differences in scholarly performance of research groups in terms of organizational variables. In order to do this, we extensively review the relevant literature, and develop a model using two theoretical approaches. A multivariate analysis shows which of the independent variables do play a role in the various scholarly performance dimensions. The study shows what organizational strategies may help in optimizing performance in various dimensions. Implications are discussed.

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“…De Jong et al 2011;Laredo and Mustar 2000). Scholarly networks can stimulate academic careers, but science-industry relations do not (van Rijnsoever et al 2008).…”

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“…No está claro el legado de este proyecto, pero es importante establecer cómo se mide el impacto en la toma de decisiones y sobre qué marco temporal, y qué calidad tiene ese impacto (De Jong, Van Arensbergen, Daemen, Van der Meulen & Van den Besselaar, 2011). El material generado y la comunicación con la División Regional de Planicación, así como la toma de conciencia entre algunos consejeros regionales, sugiere que hay un efecto de ósmosis por el cual los re-sultados de la investigación están disponibles y pueden in uir sobre futuros instrumentos.…”

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Lecciones de una investigación integrativa sobre sustentabilidad urbana: el proyecto "Risk Habitat Megacity" en Santiago de Chile, 2006-2010

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Kopfmüller

2012

EURE (Santiago)

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“…Attempts to manage the performance of individual academics and academic groups have been there for some time now, and have received considerable academic attention under the label of new public management (Schubert, 2009). Emphasizing the negative effects of these evaluation systems on scholarly work and quality, a lot of emphasis is on how to devise better evaluation and management instruments (de Jong et al, 2010;Spaapen and van Drooge, 2011). Maria Nedeva and Editorial colleagues discuss in a provoking paper the effect of journal classification lists deployed by managers in business schools.…”

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Collaboration and Competition in Research

Besselaar¹,

Hemlin

Weijden

2012

High Educ Policy

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Collaboration and competition are increasing both within and between research organizations, leading to new questions for research management and science policy. Increasing collaboration is reflected by a growing average number of coauthors in all fields (Hicks and Katz, 1996;Wuchty et al., 2007). Sometimes this is seen as a perverse effect of extremely stretched competition, and not so much as collaboration. The more papers a scientist can put his/her name on, the better this is for ones' reputation and career. Power relations may therefore play a role here, and there is a long discussion about field specific norms for correct authorship (Marusˇic´et al., 2011). Nevertheless, competition is generally conceived of as crucial for improving scientific performance and its impact on society.Increasing numbers of co-authors also reflect the increased necessity of research collaboration. First, research has become large scale and increasingly depends on research infrastructures -stimulating coordination and collaboration. Second, research is expected to address the large societal challenges (Gibbons et al., 1994;Ziman, 2000) and societal issues are by definition complex and require interdisciplinary collaboration.As more competition and more collaboration in research are demanded simultaneously, there is a need for in-depth analysis of the relation between the two, and of their effects on the quality of science and higher education. The tension between the individual reputation-based incentives and the systems' need for more direct collaboration has implications for research management and science policy. This is the thread through this special issue of Higher Education Policy. Most of the papers were presented within the empirical track 'Organization of Science Practices' of the EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) Conference in 2010 in Trento, Italy. Collaboration and competitionThe first paper, 'An Ethnographic Case Study' by Kris Naessens and colleagues, discusses the daily organizational and technical issues arising in a multidisciplinary research organization. In this study of ICT research networks, several issues come up, such as the role of geographical proximity, the (not always necessary) deployment of modern communication and collaboration tools, and how collaborative research is managed. Finally, the authors observe

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Evaluation of research in context: an approach and two cases

Cited by 66 publications

References 37 publications

Organizational factors influencing scholarly performance: a multivariate study of biomedical research groups

Organizational factors influencing scholarly performance: a multivariate study of biomedical research groups

Lecciones de una investigación integrativa sobre sustentabilidad urbana: el proyecto "Risk Habitat Megacity" en Santiago de Chile, 2006-2010

Collaboration and Competition in Research

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