Background documents
Section 1: Towards a European Evaluation Protocol
1. Proposal for the minimal contents of a self-assessment report
Section 2: Standard Evaluation Protocol
1. ALLEA Standard Evaluation Protocol 2003 - 2009
2. KNAW Standard Evalulation Protocol 2009 - 2015
3. Quality assurance in scientific research. From SEP to CEP: Balancing fairness and simplicity
Section 3: European Initiatives
1. Presentation: Jack Spaapen, ALLEA WG meeting Amsterdam, 25 June 2009
2. ESF Member Organisations Forum Ex-Post Evaluation (overview)
3. ESF Member Organisations Forum Ex-Post Evaluation (report)
4. SIAMPI press release [www]
5. Peer review. Its present and future state (ESF Conference report)
6. Peer review Conference Prague (12-13 October 2006) [www]
7. European Commission Workshop "Taking Stock and Moving Forward" (18 June 2009) [www]
8. ESF Coordinated Project on bibliometrics in Humanities and Social Sciences [www]
9. European Forum on Research and development impact assessment -EUFORDIA 2009 (24-25 February 2009) [www]
10. International Conference: Excellence and Emergence (17-20 September 2008) [www]
Section 4: National Initiatives
Austria
1. Standards der Evaluiering in der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik
Finland
1. Methods for Evaluating the Impact of Basic Research Funding
France
1. Le cas des STIC. Rapport d'etude (May 2008)
2. New evaluation agency (AERES) [www]
3. Systems evaluation by OST (Observatoire des sciences et des techniques) [www]
4. Report L'évaluation Individuelle des Chercheurs et des Enseignants-Chercheurs en Sciences Exactes et 5. Expérimentales [www]
6. ICSTI Public Conference (2007): abstracts and presentations [www]
Germany
1. Aufgaben, Kriterien und Verfahren des Evaluationsausschusses des Wissenschaftsrates
2. Funding Ranking 2009. Institutionen-Regionen-Netzwerke [www]
3. CHE (Centrum fur Hochschulentwicklung) [www]
4. German Science Council (“Wissenschaftsrat”) evaluation of Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres [www]
5. Evaluations by German Science Council (“Wissenschaftsrat”) [www]
6. DFG’s Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung (iFQ) [www]
7. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy WG (looking at the intended and unintended effects of the recent federal funding initiative to support project- and profile-related research excellence at universities) [www]
Italy
1. Higher Education evaluation in Italy [www]
Netherlands
1. Standard Evaluation Protocol
2. Quality assurance in scientific research. From SEP to CEP: Balancing fairness and simplicity
3. Evaluating Research in Context (2007)
4. Evaluation of Research in Context. A Quick Scan of an Emerging Field (2007)
5. Evalueren. Het beoordelen van wetenschappelijk onderzoek in de praktijk [www]
q Handreiking. Evaluatie van maatschappelijke relevantie van wetenschappelijk onderzoek [www]
Poland Rules for Assessment of Research Units in Poland
q Higher Education system in Poland [www]
Sweden
q Focus Research Council (VR) committees on evaluations of thematic fields [www]
q University and Institutes evaluations (example KTH) [www]
Turkey Presentation: Zeynep Aycan, ALLEA WG meeting Amsterdam, 26 October q Main funding agency TUBITAK [www]
United Kingdom
q Presentation of the Research Assessment Exercise [www]
q HEFCE pilots on bibliometrics [www]
Section 5: Humanities and Social Sciences World Social Science Report 2010 Report AHRC: Leading the World
q ESRC evaluation publications [www] Report BA: Punching our weight: the humanities and social sciences in public policy making Report ESRC: Taking Stock
q Domain -specific indicators for publications (2008) [www]
q Key Performance Indicators in Humanities Research in Ireland [www]
q Evaluating Research Performance in Economics and Social Sciences [www]
Section 6: University Rankings
q U-Multirank: a feasibility study for a global university ranking [www]
q U-Map: aiming at a classification of [European] universities, focusing therefore on profiles [www] EU-Report "Assessing Europe's university-based research" University Rankings: Diversity, Excellence and the European Initiative