Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the
research system. Usually, citations are assumed to reflect the impact of the research or its …

The current range and volume of research evaluation-related literature is extensive and
incorporates scholarly and policy/practice-related perspectives. This reflects academic and …

We begin with a short history of measuring science and discuss how the Science Citation
Index has revolutionized the quantitative study of science and created a strong application …

Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual
articles and their authors. The well-known San Francisco Declaration on Research …

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the development of the UK and Italian
university research funding systems with a special focus on Peer Review-Based Research …

Despite growing demand for practicable methods of research evaluation, the use of
bibliometric indicators remains controversial. This paper examines performance assessment …

This article discusses the metrics used in the national research evaluation in Poland of the
period 2009–2012. The Polish system uses mostly parametric assessments to make the …

In this work, we try to answer the question of which method, peer review versus
bibliometrics, better predicts the future overall scholarly impact of scientific publications. We …

During the Italian research assessment exercise, the national agency ANVUR performed an
experiment to assess agreement between grades attributed to journal articles by informed …

The paper contributes to the literature on gender gap in research investigating whether there
is a gender gap in research evaluation. We use detailed data on 180,000 research papers …