Revue par les pairs ou indicateurs de qualité : le faux choix. Un article qui fait réfléchir
Why I had to quit the research excellence framework panel | Times Higher Education
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Academics should reject the false choice between REF-style “peer review” and metrics. Money should be distributed on the basis of measures that are simple yet do not distort. These could include PhD completions, research-active staff employed and research grant income. A competitive pot could be put aside to enable less research-intensive universities to develop their research, to prevent an ossified elite capturing all the cash.
Such a change could be achieved only by strong leadership from across disciplines and universities – and in my view academic unions should lead the campaign for it. Without a shift, robust assessment will continue to be obstructed by the impossibility of properly reading submissions in the time available, and the understandable tendency of academics to defend their own.