A small(ish!) group of Research Managers, Administrators and other support may be blearily wandering around campus, or replying to emails a little more sluggishly than … Read more
Tasting our own medicine
It was a wintery day in late 2017, when into my inbox drops another email… so far, so uninspiring – this happens as a fairly(!) … Read more
All change please!
It has been a very quiet month on the blog, for which, my apologies! There are lots of things I would love to write about … Read more
Responsible metrics at Kent – so what?
We have, as an institution signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and adopted the Leiden Manifesto – what do I need to do? … Read more
Statement on fair assessment of research
The University of Kent has affirmed its commitment to the fair assessment of research through the signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment … Read more
When should I talk about research data?
Now. This would have been my shortest blog post ever, but for the general feeling that it is bad form to have a post with … Read more
Has the tide turned? A new culture for Responsible Metrics is on the horizon
Katrine Sundsbø reflects on the UK Forum for Responsible Metrics event, held on the 7th February 2018. The topic ‘responsible metrics’ has gone from hot … Read more
UK Scholarly Communications Licence?
Technology and business innovations are creating new opportunities in scholarly communication which aim to transform scholarly publishing models. These developments have potential to help us … Read more
The time has come, the OSC said, to talk of metric things.
Love them or loathe them, metrics are here… and like the fabled buses, come along in groups. Navigating the code language and acronym soup (JIF? … Read more
Predatory journals – what are they and how might you spot one?
Predatory journals are a growing issue. By 2015 more than half a million papers had been published in journals known to be predatory, and Jeffrey Beall’s … Read more