University College London (UCL) released its Academic Careers Framework, which provides information related to its promotion processes.
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University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine developed guidance “Identifying Faculty Contributions to Collaborative Scholarship” to help faculty describe and assess team science.
University of California, Berkeley
The Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley provides support for faculty search committees to evaluate candidate contributions to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including guidance for search committee composition, application requirements, rating criteria, and more.
The University of St Andrews
The Open Research Working Group on behalf of the Research Committee developed a set of five principles to guide the use of bibliometric indicators in research assessment, which include expertise, diversity, data, integrity, and transparency.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
In keeping with HHMI’s commitment to basic scientific discovery, the Institute employs outstanding researchers for renewable seven-year terms as HHMI Investigators.
Ghent University
Ghent University published a vision statement for evaluating research based on eight principles agreed on by the University’s Board of Governors.
CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development
CIRAD developed the ImpresS method to assess the environmental and societal impact its research.
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences | Fédération des sciences humaines
The Federation released a report in 2017 to support the ongoing conversation in Canada about the assessment of research impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
American Society For Cell Biology
The idea for the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment began at the 2012 ASCB Annual Meeting. As one of the initial DORA signatories, the ASCB does not promote its publications by the Journal Impact Factor.
Académie des Sciences, Leopoldina and Royal Society
Three national academies issued a statement on good practice in the evaluation of researchers and research programs in October of 2017. The statement recognized the need for efficient, fair, and robust researcher evaluation, especially as the size of the research community continues to increase.