• Bibliometrics in academic recruitment: A screening tool rather than a game changer 

      Reymert, Ingvild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This paper investigates the use of metrics to recruit professors for academic positions. We analyzed confidential reports with candidate evaluations in economics, sociology, physics, and informatics at the University of ...
    • A comprehensive analysis of the journal evaluation system in China 

      Huang, Ying; Li, Ruinan; Zhang, Lin; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Journal evaluation systems reflect how new insights are critically reviewed and published, and the prestige and impact of a discipline’s journals is a key metric in many research assessments, performance evaluation, and ...
    • The new research assessment reform in China and its implementation 

      Zhang, Lin; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A radical reform of research assessment was recently launched in China. It seeks to replace a focus on Web of Science-based indicators with a balanced combination of qualitative and quantitative research evaluation, and ...
    • The role of metrics in peer assessments 

      Langfeldt, Liv; Reymert, Ingvild S; Aksnes, Dag W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Metrics on scientific publications and their citations are easily accessible and are often referred to in assessments of research and researchers. This paper addresses whether metrics are considered a legitimate and integral ...