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Chemistry World April 9, 2014 Anthony King	Metrics' role in assessing research reviewed A committee set up by Hefce (Higher Education Funding Council for England) aims to grapple with the thorny issue of using metrics to assess and manage research. Metrics have expanded to altmetrics, which track what people are saying about a paper online.
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 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 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.
Chemistry World November 3, 2015 Andy Extance	Gamblers judge research quality cheaply and well Getting chemists to bet on the outcome of the UK's Research Excellence Framework system for assessing university research quality could trim its costs.
Chemistry World September 23, 2009 Leila Sattary	Brace for research impact exercise University research funding will be distributed partly according to measures of 'research impact', the Higher Education Funding Council for England has revealed.
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 July 20, 2011 Leila Sattary	REF looks to help academics who take a career break The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has released it guidelines detailing how universities will be assessed in the upcoming Research Excellence Framework.
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
Chemistry World December 7, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Quality by Numbers The UK government has announced a shake-up in the way university research is assessed and funded.
Chemistry World October 24, 2013 Mark Peplow	The judgement of your peers The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment has almost 10,000 signatories demanding that funders and institutions stop using journal-level metrics as a basis for such decisions, and instead focus on the scientific content of papers.
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.
Chemistry World March 30, 2015 Maria Burke	Time spent assessing research impact was worthwhile At the request of the UK's higher education funding bodies, RAND Europe, an independent not-for-profit research institute, conducted two evaluations of the impact component.
Chemistry World June 2008 Seam McWhinnie	Science Funding in Crisis How the UK's research funding system is suffering from government interference.
Chemistry World March 29, 2010 Leila Sattary	REF refined The Higher Education Funding Council for England has made changes to the proposed Research Excellence Framework following an extensive consultation with stakeholders in the research community.
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.
Chemistry World April 2009	Column: Undercover academic People put a great deal of faith in metrics designed to point out who has done better than the rest.
Chemistry World December 19, 2014 Mark Peplow	A bad business The university-as-business model has been embraced because of its potential benefits. But there is a growing feeling that the relentless pursuit of targets is at odds with scientific research and the academic ethos.
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.
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.
Chemistry World November 11, 2010 Laura Howes	Research impact rating to stay Impact assessment will remain a key part of the UK's new research assessment framework, following the results of a pilot scheme at a number of universities.
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 July 27, 2011 Leila Sattary	Research council to pick favorites to receive UK chemistry funding The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of 'national importance'.
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 December 19, 2014 Maria Burke	'Great outcome' for chemistry in REF 2014 The REF results are hugely important to higher education institutions as they are used by the four UK funding bodies to allocate research funding.
Chemistry World September 2011	The research excellence framework 2014 I will try to cover some general aspects of the REF 2014 exercise: the ways in which it both resembles and differs from the research assessment exercise 2008 and its importance for the higher education sector in general and for chemistry in particular.
Chemistry World May 2009	Funding fall-outs The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it?
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.
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 October 23, 2012 Leila Sattary	EPSRC grant success rates rise The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has experienced a significant decrease in the number of applications submitted in 2011 -- 12, which has led to the highest grant success rates in the last decade.
Chemistry World April 2012	Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online?
Chemistry World July 13, 2012 Laura Howes	Research integrity may be linked to UK grants Universities UK, in association with several other UK funding bodies have published a concordat on research conduct and integrity that could become part of the grant conditions of the signatories.
Chemistry World March 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Funding Shift Worries Researchers Government and research funding bodies are shifting funding towards projects with measurable societal and economic impact -- triggering protests from many academics, who see the strategy as dangerously short sighted.
Chemistry World March 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Hefce announces how RAE money will be distributed This includes 1.6 billion for research, based on the outcome of the revamped Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Science community urged to unite on open access Arguments over fine detail should not derail moves towards open access publishing for scientific research, according to those with the biggest stake in future changes.
Chemistry World March 23, 2010 Leila Sattary	MPs warn science cuts will harm economy Stop spending cuts now or risk devastating British science and the economy, says a report published today by the UK government's Science and Technology Committee.
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.
Chemistry World March 18, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Universities face cuts as Hefce deals with first funding drop in years As the Higher Education Funding Council for England announces how it plans to distribute 7.4 billion in funding, uncertainties over future cuts and shifts in the political landscape cause anxiety in academia.
Chemistry World November 1, 2012 Patrick McGhee	Losing concentration In the UK, successive governments have held to the mantra that funding for university research should be heavily concentrated in a handful of universities.
Chemistry World December 18, 2014	Reflections on the REF After a formidable amount of work, the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is complete and published. The results capture the UK chemistry research environment and the quality and impact of that research.
Chemistry World October 2011 David Delpy	EPSRC Funding The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is having to make some tough funding decisions.
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Anna Lewcock	Budget cuts hit university teaching University teaching is bearing the brunt of cuts to higher education funding, while science has been afforded a degree of protection, according to the latest figures announced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
CRM October 18, 2004 Joshua Weinberger	Metrics Should Define Results Setting benchmarks to determine the success of a CRM initiative is a must. The metrics that matter most are those taken when agents are serving customers.
Chemistry World June 12, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	UK chemists must take control The Engineering and physical sciences research council second international review of UK chemistry has warned that too little is being done to support early-career researchers and encourage high-risk research.
Chemistry World September 7, 2012 Laura Howes	10 million open access boost UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, has today announced an additional investment of 10 million to help universities take up open access options.
Chemistry World November 23, 2015 Patrick Walter	Chop and change The plans for how much money the nation's science base will be allotted over the next five years will currently be sitting on the U.K. chancellor's desk
Chemistry World February 2, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Higher education funding boost confirmed for England The UK government has confirmed that it will increase funding for higher education in England by approximately 1 billion pounds in the forthcoming financial year.
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 April 25, 2014 Emma Stoye	EPSRC announces 83.5m boost for PhD training The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will invest an additional 83.5 million pounds this year in doctoral training partnerships in the UK, universities and science minister David Willetts has announced.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Lacovic & Juric	Report on Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2014) Libraries in the Digital Age is a biennial international conference that focuses on the transformation of libraries and information services in the digital environment.