Flood prediction has advanced significantly in terms of technique and capacity to achieve
policymakers' objectives of accurate forecast and identification of flood-prone and impacted …

Purpose: This paper presents an overview of different kinds of lists of scholarly publication
channels and of experiences related to the construction and maintenance of national lists …

Achieving impact from academic research is a challenging, complex, multifaceted, and
interconnected topic with a number of competing priorities and key performance indicators …

Abstract In Ukraine, Scopus data are used to evaluate academics. Existing shortcomings in
the Ukrainian evaluation system allow them to publish in titles that have been delisted from …

As the importance of 'excellence'increases in higher education, so too does the importance
of indicators to measure research productivity. We examine how such indicators might …

When performing a national research assessment, some countries rely on citation metrics
whereas others, such as the UK, primarily use peer review. In the influential Metric Tide …

Performance-based research funding systems have been extensively used around the
globe to allocate funds across higher education institutes (HEIs), which led to an increased …

A performance-based research funding system (PRFS) is a nationwide incentive scheme
that promotes and rewards university research performance through competition for …

The current trends and challenges in the field of bibliometrics are reviewed. To do so, we
take the reader along a bibliometric route with six stations: the explosion of databases, the …

The BOF-key is the performance-based research funding system that is used in Flanders,
Belgium. In this paper we describe the historical background of the system, its current design …