Research Evaluation in Practice
Over a hundred people gathered at the beautiful Grosvenor Auditorium at the National Geographic Society to participate in a day-long seminar on practical applications of research evaluation...
View ArticleAnalyzing a multidisciplinary research field
A researcher who consults a bibliographic database and looks for articles using the keywords “CO2” and “greenhouse” could be a climatologist working on atmospheric models or a botanist interested in...
View ArticleThe RAE: measuring academic research
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is the principal method used in the UK to establish the quality of the research undertaken in the higher education sector. Conducted jointly by the UK’s four...
View ArticleUsage: an alternative way to evaluate research
From the darkness to the light Librarians have long struggled to measure how library resources where being used: for decades, reshelving and circulation lists were the main methods available to them....
View ArticleWhat is the best way to assess academic research?
This year will be the last time the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is conducted in the United Kingdom. From 2009, this system for assessing research quality at higher education institutions will be...
View ArticleScience Funding Programs and Policies
One important goal of organizations that provide funds for biomedical and behavioral research is to encourage and support research that leads to more effective health promotion, better disease...
View ArticleThe Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
If you think the term ‘co-citation analysis’ is strictly related to bibliometrics, and lays within the realm of Library and Information Science, think again! Co-citation analysis morphs into patents...
View ArticleMarket Research
Understand Your Market To run a successful business, you need to learn about your customers, your competitors and your industry. Market research is the process of analyzing data to help you understand...
View ArticleConducting Market Research?
Are you writing a business plan? Planning to expand into new markets?Then it’s worth knowing that Uncle Sam offers access to free data that can help you understand your market and analyze consumer...
View ArticleThe End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of...
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