In 2022, the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland underwent a complete overhaul…

In 2022, the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland underwent a complete overhaul…
The University of Zurich (UZH) is Switzerland’s largest university. It was founded in 1833 and…
In 2015 the UK’s Open University (OU) published “An Open Research University” a book outlining…
The Latin American Forum for Research Assessment (FOLEC) is an initiative of the international Latin…
Tampere University is a new Finnish institution, formed in 2019 from the merger of the University of Tampere and the Tampere University of Technology. As a result of the merger, Tampere recognized it had a unique opportunity to redesign its policies to implement a fair and responsible model for faculty hiring, promotion, and tenure.
University College London (UCL) has developed several new responsible research development and assessment policies: the Academic Careers Framework (2018) and the Responsible Use of Bibliometrics at UCL (2020). These policies were prompted by internal motivations, which included a wish to create a culture that embraces Open Science practices at the university.
In response to an institutional culture that had become overly reliant on quantitative indicators for research assessment, and from a desire to promote a less competitive academic environment with a renewed focus on collaboration, Ghent University developed a new conceptual framework for research evaluation that is guided by eight principles.
As a part of a broader action plan on Open Science, a national consortium called Universities Norway formed a research assessment working group in the fall of 2019 with the objective to build a national career assessment framework.
In a position paper published in November 2019, the Netherlands’ public knowledge institutions and research…
Finland is among the first countries to have developed national recommendations on responsible research evaluation. In 2020, a task force formed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies published the “Good Practice in Researcher Evaluation: Recommendation for Responsible Evaluation of a Researcher in Finland.”