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PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSING QUALITY OF ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND RANKING OF RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING PERSONNEL

stmm. 2021 (1): 151-159

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2021.01.151

YURIY SAVELYEV Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociological Research, Faculty of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Volodymyrska St., 60, Kyiv, 01033)

yursave@knu.ua

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-4472

The paper indicates existing limitations of approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of research output and current systems for ranking of scientists and university faculty members. Based on the 10 principles of the Leiden Manifesto, the author proposes essential rules of the quality assessment system of academic publications. The paper substantiates that such a system is aimed to motivate conscientious and efficient researchers within the scope of separate fields of study. Meaningful qualitative assessment avoids excessive and false precision of measurement and embraces ranking by performance categories rather than simple scores, peer review and qualitative levels of publications estimated by their contribution to the field instead of formal features. A particular emphasis is given on the need to take into account high quality leading studies published in Ukrainian and specific disciplinary formats for presenting research results as important local forms of knowledge, the size of authorship teams, as well as the duration of the research and publication cycle. The proposed approach may help to ensure the systematic and robust evaluation of research results and would facilitate the academic performance in Ukraine.

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Keywords: academic publications, quality assessment, research performance, scientometrics, rankings, methods

References

  1. Melnichuk, D. A., Ibatullin, I. I., Shostak, A. V. (2004). Rating of subjects of activity of the National Agrarian University of Ukraine. [In Russian]. University Management: Practice and Analysis, 3, 44–58. [=Мельничук 2004]
  2. Hicks, D. et al. (2015). Bibliometrics: the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. [Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L., De Rijcke, S., Rafols, I.] Nature, 520 (7548), 429–431. https://doi.org/10.1038/520429a

Received 24.11.2020

PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSING QUALITY OF ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND RANKING OF RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING PERSONNEL

stmm. 2021 (1): 151-159

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2021.01.151

YURIY SAVELYEV Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology and Methods of Sociological Research, Faculty of Sociology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Volodymyrska St., 60, Kyiv, 01033)

yursave@knu.ua

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-4472

The paper indicates existing limitations of approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of research output and current systems for ranking of scientists and university faculty members. Based on the 10 principles of the Leiden Manifesto, the author proposes essential rules of the quality assessment system of academic publications. The paper substantiates that such a system is aimed to motivate conscientious and efficient researchers within the scope of separate fields of study. Meaningful qualitative assessment avoids excessive and false precision of measurement and embraces ranking by performance categories rather than simple scores, peer review and qualitative levels of publications estimated by their contribution to the field instead of formal features. A particular emphasis is given on the need to take into account high quality leading studies published in Ukrainian and specific disciplinary formats for presenting research results as important local forms of knowledge, the size of authorship teams, as well as the duration of the research and publication cycle. The proposed approach may help to ensure the systematic and robust evaluation of research results and would facilitate the academic performance in Ukraine.

Full article: ukr | rus

Keywords: academic publications, quality assessment, research performance, scientometrics, rankings, methods

References

  1. Melnichuk, D. A., Ibatullin, I. I., Shostak, A. V. (2004). Rating of subjects of activity of the National Agrarian University of Ukraine. [In Russian]. University Management: Practice and Analysis, 3, 44–58. [=Мельничук 2004]
  2. Hicks, D. et al. (2015). Bibliometrics: the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. [Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L., De Rijcke, S., Rafols, I.] Nature, 520 (7548), 429–431. https://doi.org/10.1038/520429a

Received 24.11.2020

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