Michel Roland's Library tagged UK évaluation →  View Popular

(1) In evaluating and rewarding the research performance of universities department by department, future RAEs (after 2008) will no longer, as before, assess only 4 selected papers per researcher, among those researchers selected for inclusion: All papers, by all departmental researchers, will be assessed. (Step forward)



(2) The assessment will be in terms of objective metrics, not just in terms of panel review. (Step forward)



(3) The metrics will be multiple, rather than just a single metric. (Step forward)



(4) The new system will apply to science, technology, and engineering, at least. (Step forward)



(5) The new system may only apply to science, technology and engineering. (Step Backward)



(6) The metrics considered may be only three, picked a priori: (i) prior research income, (ii) postgraduate numbers, and (iii) the "impact factor" (i.e., the average number of citations) of the journal in which each article was published. (Step Backward)