Aalborg University (AAU) in Denmark has embarked on an ambitious reform of its research assessment…
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University of Calgary
In January 2021, the University of Calgary was the first Canadian university to sign DORA,…
University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo, established in 1877, is Japan’s oldest and largest national university, with…
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow (UofG) is a public, research-intensive University that values the generation of…
University of Zurich
The University of Zurich (UZH) is Switzerland’s largest university. It was founded in 1833 and…
Tampere University
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
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.
Ghent 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.
Universities Norway
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.
The Dutch Recognition & Rewards Programme
In a position paper published in November 2019, the Netherlands’ public knowledge institutions and research…