THE 1996 RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE

Measuring research quality: the United Kingdom Government's Research Assessment Exercise

Received: 22 June 2008 Accepted: 21 August 2008 Abstract Can research quality be measured meaningfully? Whether it can or not does not interfere with the desire to do so if the motivation is strong enough. This paper discusses the United Kingdom (U.K.) Government’s approach to measuring research quality in U.K. universities, known in the U.K. as the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The RAE i...

NAPAP 1996 Assessment

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The first Italian research assessment exercise: A bibliometric perspective

In December 2003, seventeen years after the first UK research assessment exercise, Italy started up its first-ever national research evaluation, with the aim to evaluate, using the peer review method, the excellence of the national research production. The evaluation involved 20 disciplinary areas, 102 research structures, 18,500 research products and 6,661 peer reviewers (1,465 from abroad); i...

The Tobacco Products Research Trust 1982-1996

71 I would strongly recommend this book as an historical reference text for all Obstetrician and Gynaecologist' s shelves. It is a fascinating book into which to dip and browse and to quote Baskett' s quotation of Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen farther ... it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". In these days of political correctness when admitting links to the tobacco industry would ...

Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music)