Claire Fraser and Elizabeth Gadd discuss how research reform should reflect on the helpfulness of value-led strategies.| Impact of Social Sciences - Maximizing the impact of academic research
This guest blog is republished from the LSE Impact Blog, first published in December 2024. Reflecting on the ongoing reform of research assessment, Claire Fraser and Elizabeth Gadd question some existing approaches. Here they discuss how reform efforts may need to reconsider the usefulness of value-led strategies.| DORA
The creation of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) has led to a heated debate on the balance between peer review and evaluative metrics in research assessment regimes. Luciana Balboa, Elizabeth Gadd, Eva Mendez, Janne Pölönen, Karen Stroobants, Erzsebet Toth Cithra and the CoARA Steering Board address these arguments and state CoARA’s commitment to finding ways in which peer review and bibliometrics can be used together responsibly.| Social Science Space