While appropriate, context-sensitive methodologies for assessing research quality and impact are important, debates have intensified about the wide-ranging, complex and ambiguous effects of current evaluation criteria and metrics on the quality and culture of research, the quality of evidence informing policymaking, priorities in research and research funding, individual career trajectories and re. [...] The rise of open research frameworks and of social media, a shift to mission-oriented and transdisciplinary science, the growth in open peer review and the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning requires new thinking on how research and researchers are evaluated. [...] 5 The Future of Research Evaluation PREFACE The Global Young Academy (GYA), InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the International Science Council (ISC) came together in 2021 to take stock of challenges, debates and developments in research evaluation/assessment worldwide, across diverse research cultures and systems, and to explore ways in which they might participate in and influence the re-imagin. [...] But they are also partly responsible for fuelling the ‘publish or perish’ research culture which exists worldwide, with deleterious effects on the quality of research outputs, the integrity and trustworthiness of research systems and the diversity of research communities (e.g. [...] The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management.
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