This is a report on the use of bibliometrics at UCL regarding research policy. Consultation with faculties identified general recommendations for promoting more diverse and holistic academic assessment.
Principles
Policy Statement on the responsible use of bibliometrics
This document from University College London’s (UCL) Academic Committee establishes 12 principles for the responsible use of bibliometrics .
Research Assessment at EMBL
This post by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) discusses their signing of DORA and CoARA, committing to fair research assessment and developing a set of Research Assessment Recommendations to uphold the principles outlined in both DORA and CoARA.
Internal Policy No. 71: Open Science and Open Access
In 2021 the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) implemented a new internal promotions policy incorporating DORA recommendations in full.
White Paper: Measuring Research Output through Bibliometrics, Winter, 2016
This document contains a literature review on the role and limitation of bibliometrics for use in research assessment. The document discusses a series of good practice principles and recommendations, including summaries of the uses and limitations of various established publication and citation-based measures.
Bibliometrics: Assessing Research
This is a library webpage that highlights the key principles that research assessors should use for using metrics responsibly from the University of Southampton. Principles include transparency, equality, and reproducibility.
Responsible Metrics Policy Summary
This is the quick-reference summary of the responsible metrics policy from the University of Southampton that outlines the expectations of the responsible use of research metrics by faculty and staff. This resource was prepared by the library staff.
Responsible Research Metrics Policy
This is a detailed policy on the appropriate and inappropriate use of metrics for research assessment from the University of Southampton. This resource was prepared by the library staff.
Critical Review of Application Examples
This is a series of example applications from the University of Southampton that demonstrates the most and least ideal approaches to preparing an application for promotion (e.g., lack of context for achievements, using citation counts or journal impact factors as proxy measures of quality, etc.) This resource was prepared by the library staff.
Bibliometrics: An Introduction
This is a fact sheet from the library staff of the University of Southampton that outlines best practices for choosing and use of different bibliometrics.