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Chemistry World January 2008 Gurney & Adams	Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries.
Chemistry World June 2008 Seam McWhinnie	Science Funding in Crisis How the UK's research funding system is suffering from government interference.
Chemistry World December 15, 2014 Maria Burke	Can research quality be predicted by metrics? In terms of funding and reputation, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is a vital event in the academic calendar. Now a team of researchers has made predictions about the results of the latest assessment using citation-based metrics, rather than peer review.
Chemistry World March 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Riding the RAE Rollercoaster For chemists, a shift to metrics may bring welcome relief from the time-consuming and onerous RAE, first praised but increasingly criticized for its effect on UK research.
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Chemistry World August 20, 2014 Anthony Olejniczak	In defense of metrics As research funding fails to keep up with the growth of institutions and researchers, competition for that funding becomes increasingly fierce and purse-holders turn to various types of metrics to inform their decisions.
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Chemistry World June 4, 2010 Leila Sattary	US to measure research impact A new federal project promises to monitor the impact of the $8.9 billion contribution to US scientific research included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus package.
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Paul McFedries	Measuring the Impact of Altmetrics When it comes to ranking academic influence, PageRank is just the start. Altmetrics refers to tools based on bookmarks, links, blog posts, tweets, and other online measures.
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Information Today June 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	NISO Project Brings Scientific Evaluation Into the 21st Century With Altmetrics New forms of scholarly outputs, such as datasets, software tools, algorithms, or molecular structures are now commonplace, but they are not easily assessed by traditional citation metrics. These are two among the many concerns the growing movement around altmetrics is trying to address.
Chemistry World November 9, 2015 Emma Stoye	UK science's 'superpower' status at risk The UK government must commit to spend more on science R&D in the long-term if the UK is to remain a 'scientific superpower', according to a report published by the House of Commons
Chemistry World October 27, 2009 Leila Sattary	Scientists reject economic impact assessment Almost 4,000 academics have signed a petition which claims that the UK's planned Research Excellence Framework is founded on a lack of understanding of how knowledge advances, and calls for the UK funding councils to withdraw the current proposal.
Chemistry World April 2, 2015 Maria Burke	Metrics failed to predict REF outcomes A team of mathematicians who used metrics to predict the outcomes of the UK's national assessment of research in 2014 have reported that their results were 'wildly inaccurate'.
Chemistry World November 27, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	End of the road for h-index rankings US chemists who have ranked living chemists based on their h-indices have decided to stop. The decision comes after criticism that the list lends too much emphasis to a single metric for assessing academic performance.
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Chemistry World December 16, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Research funding plan should be abandoned, say academics A petition bearing 18,000 signatures calling for the abandonment of economic impact assessment in research funding applications has been delivered to the Higher Education Funding Council for England
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Chemistry World January 8, 2010 Leila Sattary	Hefce takes more hits over impact A poll of UK professors finds that over a third would consider pursuing their academic career abroad if current UK plans to assess and reward research impact are implemented.
Chemistry World June 28, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Turbulent ride for impact pilot Universities involved in a Higher Education Funding Council for England's pilot scheme pilot exercise to establish how to best assess research impact have found it a difficult and time-consuming process.
Chemistry World April 2012	Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online?
Chemistry World January 5, 2010 Leila Sattary	Red card for REF Universities, learned societies and educational establishments have raised concerns about the UK's proposed new Research Excellence Framework, with particular controversy surrounding the impact assessment element of the evaluation process.
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Chemistry World July 12, 2010 Anna Lewcock	New research assessment plan postponed over impact The UK's universities and science minister has announced a one year delay to a new research assessment system, saying that time is needed to resolve concerns over how the social and economic 'impact' of research is measured.
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Chemistry World June 12, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Focus on economic impact the way forward, says RCUK The chief executives of the UK's seven research councils have stepped forward to defend moves to reprioritize the nation's research on projects that offer economic benefits.
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Leila Sattary	Higher education cuts hit home Universities in England will lose 940 million in funding in the next financial year with severe cuts to capital budgets and teaching.
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Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Sussex Reprieve Raises Intervention Issue Proposed plans to close the U.K.'s University of Sussex chemistry department have been scrapped and a new department of chemistry and biochemistry created.
Information Today June 12, 2014	NISO Altmetrics Draft Now Open for Public Comment The NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project began in July 2013 with the goal of studying, proposing, and developing alternative-metrics standards and recommended practices.
Chemistry World October 12, 2012 Laura Howes	Government adds 200 million to research partnership fund At the Conservative party conference earlier this week, UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne pledged 200 million of new money to the Research Partnership Investment Fund which supports university capital projects.
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Maria Burke	Chemists' anxiety mounts as spending review nears The UK government will publish its spending review, setting out funding commitments and priorities for the next five years. This review will include funding levels for scientific research and wider public investment in science and engineering.
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