Reflection on: “RIMS: The Research Impact Measurement Service at the University of New South Wales”

Drummond, Robyn

doi:10.1080/00048623.2016.1251832

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“…Since researchers and administrators can be drawn to a “simple” metric such as the h-index, the most effective use of bibliometric service will serve to educate researchers and encourage them to reflect in a productive way about their publication practices [49]. However, it is equally important to educate researchers about the limitations as well as benefits of the various research impact assessment tools and methods [47].…”

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Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

Gerbig

Kirby

2019

jmla

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Objective: To better support dentistry researchers in the ever-changing landscape of scholarly research, academic librarians need to redefine their roles and discover new ways to be involved at each stage of the research cycle. A needs assessment survey was conducted to evaluate faculty members’ research support needs and allow a more targeted approach to the development of research services in an academic health sciences library.Methods: The anonymous, web-based survey was distributed via email to full-time researchers at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. The survey included twenty questions inquiring about researchers’ needs and behaviors across three stages of the research cycle: funding and grant applications, publication and dissemination, and research impact assessment. Data were also collected on researchers’ use of grey literature to identify whether current library efforts to support researchers should be improved in this area.Results: Among library services, researchers considered support for funding and grant applications most valuable and grey literature support least valuable. Researcher engagement with open access publishing models was low, and few participants had self-archived their publications in the university’s institutional repository. Participants reported low interest in altmetrics, and few used online tools to promote or share their research results.Conclusions: Findings indicate that increased efforts should be made to promote and develop services for funding and grant applications. New services are needed to assist researchers in maximizing their research impact and to increase researcher awareness of the benefits of open access publishing models, self-archiving, and altmetrics.

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Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

Gerbig

Kirby

2019

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Unsettling Impact: Responding to Cultural Complexity

Crabtree

2017

Australian Geographer

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‘Scaling’ the academia: Perspectives of academics on the impact of their practices

Kondakçı

Kurtay

Kaya-Kasikci

et al. 2021

Research Evaluation

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The pressure on the universities to take a visible place in the rankings has caused anachronistic policies and practices in evaluating the performance of universities. The value attributed to the rankings results in policies prioritizing the criteria imposed by rankings while evaluating the performance of academics, which successively causes several issues in assessing the real impact of the academic practices. Considering these criticisms and concerns about the impact assessment, this study aimed at exploring the perceptions of academics about the impact of their academic practices. Adapting the interpretive phenomenological design, the data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 participants from the field of education in five flagship universities of Turkey. The findings of the study revealed that, although impact assessment understanding of the academics and their institutions go parallel with covering the practices around three basic missions of the university, many activities go in between without recognition by the same impact assessment practices. Interestingly, the academics exhibited their commitment to institutional policies in impact assessment practices; however, they exhibit resentment for the same policies due to failing to recognize the localized mission of the university, threatening the deeply rooted values of the academy, fouling the academy with ethical violations, and causing further detachment between academic practices and societal needs. The concerns and criticism of the current impact assessment are likely to alter the priorities of the universities and push them to adapt an impact assessment, which is less relevant to the local needs of their societies.

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Reflection on: “RIMS: The Research Impact Measurement Service at the University of New South Wales”

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

Needs assessment for improving library support for dentistry researchers

Unsettling Impact: Responding to Cultural Complexity

‘Scaling’ the academia: Perspectives of academics on the impact of their practices

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