The metric tide: report of the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management

By James Wilsdon, L. Allen, Eleonora Belfiore, Philip Campbell, Stephen Curry, Steven A. Hill, Richard Jones, R. Kain, S. Kerridge, Mike Thelwall and 5 more. 2015

720 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3c20ada28fa36ce5391f277af0f09e10289a7d92

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Paul F. Wouters
2. Lauren A. Rivera

In Statistics and Probability

1. Paul F. Wouters
2. L. Langfeldt
3. Dag W. Aksnes
4. Werner Marx
5. Lutz Bornmann
6. Robin Haunschild
7. Judit Bar-Ilan
8. Loet Leydesdorff

Citations in the corpus

• Dimensions: Building Context for Search and Evaluation (2018, background): “In particular, The Metric Tide (Wilsdon, 2015) offers five of its own “dimensions”: Robustness, Humility, Transparency, Diversity, and Reflexivity.”
• Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories (2019, methodology): “The recent report on the use of metrics in the REF also shows that there is huge variation in the viewpoints within the scholarly and scientific communities (Wilsdon et al., 2015).”
• Climate Change Research in View of Bibliometrics (2016, background): “a journal or a country) which belong to the most frequently cited papers in the corresponding WoS subject categories and publication years has emerged as the most robust normalized impact score (Wilsdon et al., 2015; Wouters et al., 2015).”