The value of qualitative evidence synthesis for informing healthcare policy and practice
within evidence-based medicine is increasingly recognised. However, there is a lack of …

In this paper we aim to understand if gender makes a difference in the path to promotion to
full professor in Italian universities, drawing on data from 2013 to 2016. The new promotion …

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 …

National research evaluation initiatives and incentive schemes choose between simplistic
quantitative indicators and time-consuming peer/expert review, sometimes supported by …

Research collaboration is promoted by governments and research funders, but if the relative
prevalence and merits of collaboration vary internationally then different national and …

It has been over a decade since Ioannidis (2005) published a provocative indictment of
medical research titled “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” According to the …

Governments and organizations design performance-based research funding systems
(PBRFS) for strategic aims, such as to selectively allocate scarce resources and stimulate …

Pre-evaluating scientific paper quality aids in alleviating peer review pressure and fostering
scientific advancement. Although prior studies have identified numerous quality-related …

This article investigates the impact of the second national research assessment (VQR 2004–
10), which was performed in 2011 by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of …

Formal assessments of the quality of the research produced by departments and universities
are now conducted by many countries to monitor achievements and allocate performance …