Italy’s national research assessment: some unpleasant effects

Grisorio, Maria Jennifer; Prota, Francesco

doi:10.1080/03075079.2019.1693989

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“…(Professor, Macquarie University) Writing for scholarly publication may be regarded as a game, and many of our participants claimed that is important for students to understand the rules of the game as quickly as possible. To enjoy rapid career progression in academia, students and early career researchers must play the 'game', even if national research assessment schemes (Grisorio & Prota, 2019;Watermeyer & Chubb, 2019) and journal rankings (Willmott, 2011) have serious flaws. Students need to recognise that they are unlikely to achieve publishing success in good journals writing as sole authors.…”

Section: Student Self-developmentmentioning

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Doctoral publishing as professional development for an academic career in higher education

Wilkins

Hazzam

Lean

2021

The International Journal of Management Education

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Section: Student Self-developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doctoral publishing as professional development for an academic career in higher education

Wilkins

Hazzam

Lean

2021

The International Journal of Management Education

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“…Very little is known about inter-regional disparities in medical sciences research. Several studies have investigated the north–south divide in the university system (Abramo et al, 2016 ; Banfi & Viesti, 2015 ; Grisorio & Prota, 2020 ; Viesti, 2015 , 2016 ), however none of these focus on the medical sciences, and none deal with this area across the entire national research system. Our work should unveil any regional disparities in scientific wealth in the specialties directly concerned with the COVID-19 pandemic, and could be readily expanded to any other medical sciences areas.…”

Section: Equity In the Italian Health Care Systemmentioning

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A bibliometric methodology to unveil territorial inequities in the scientific wealth to combat COVID-19

Abramo

D’Angelo

2021

Scientometrics

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In this paper we develop a methodology to assess the scientific wealth of territories at field level. Our methodology uses a bibliometric approach based on the observation of academic research performance and overall scientific production in each territory. We apply it to assess disparities in the Italian territories in the medical specialties at the front line of the COVID-19 emergency. Italy has been the first among western countries to be severely affected by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study reveals remarkable inequities across territories, with scientific weaknesses concentrated in the south. Policies for rebalancing the north–south divide should also consider, in addition to tangible assets, the gap in production and availability of quality medical knowledge.

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“…Southern universities, which operate in less privileged areas and are subject to large student-staff ratios due to the demographic pressure, the argument goes, will receive less and less resources and will never be in the position to improve their position. Several authors have therefore argued that research assessment in the Italian context is an instrument for perpetuating and widening spatial and social inequalities (Viesti, 2016;Grisorio and Prota, 2020). This issue is part of a more general argument according to which research assessment is invariably associated to the deepening of inequalities (Warren et al 2020).…”

Section: Polarisation Of the Higher Education Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two Decades of Research Assessment in Italy. Addressing the Criticisms

Bonaccorsi

2020

SAR

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Italy is the single largest country in Continental Europe to have adopted a regular and mandatory research assessment approach, involving all researchers at universities and Public Research Organizations (PROs), with impact on performance-based funding. With more than 180,000 products, evaluated by more than 14,000 referees, the 2004-2010 exercise carried out by a newly created Agency (ANVUR) was one of the largest ever carried out. It has adopted a peculiar mixed-methodology approach, using peer review in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and bibliometrics in STEM disciplines. The approach has raised a number of conceptual and technical issues. In parallel a major reform of academic recruitment has introduced quantitative indicators as threshold values for candidates to the National Scientific Habilitation. This procedure has been made possible by a massive exercise of classification and rating of journals. The paper addresses the most important criticisms raised against these research assessment initiatives and checks their arguments against empirical evidence. The paper also addresses the controversial issue of unintended and negative consequences of research assessment. The final section offers some policy highlights.

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Italy’s national research assessment: some unpleasant effects

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Doctoral publishing as professional development for an academic career in higher education

Doctoral publishing as professional development for an academic career in higher education

A bibliometric methodology to unveil territorial inequities in the scientific wealth to combat COVID-19

Two Decades of Research Assessment in Italy. Addressing the Criticisms

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