About REPP

The Research Evaluation and Policy Project (REPP) is Australia's leading centre for the systematic evaluation and mapping of research across all fields of scholarship. A major focus of REPP is research on the advanced quantitative analysis of scientific performance and the organisational structure of Australia's research landscape, and REPP regularly conducts bibliometric analyses of scientific publications produced under the patronage of publicly-funded bodies such as the ARC, CSIRO and NHMRC.

Parallel to this, REPP also recognises the value of developing novel qualitative and quantitative approaches to research assessment, and the need to generate 'metrics' or indicators sensitive to the research and dissemination practices of a variety of fields not well served by standard bibliometric approaches, particularly in the social sciences, humanities and arts, as well as disciplines in the applied sciences such as computing and engineering.

With an increasing reliance on the use of quantitative measures in the assessment of research, members of the group play a central role in policy developments both within Australia, and internationally.

News

2007: Working paper: ‘Metrics or Peer Review? Evaluating the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise in Political Science’.
2007: Dr Claire Donovan has won a European Science oundation prize for her paper ‘Accounting for the Triple Bottom Line: A Robust Qualitative Measure of the Public Value of Research’. She has been awarded €800, publication of her paper in a special number of Research Policy, and will be flown from Australia to Vienna to present her paper at an ESF conference Science Impact: Rethinking the Impact of Basic Research on Society and the Economy, 10–11 May 2007.
August 2006: From Apprentice to Colleague, G. Laudel and J. Gläser, REPP Discussion Paper 06/1
November 2005: A Review of Current Australian and International Practice in Measuring the Quality and Impact of Publicly Funded Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, C. Donovan, REPP Discussion Paper 05/3
September 2005: Testing Quantitative Indicators of the Quality and Impact of Research in the Social Sciences: A Pilot Study in Economics, C. Donovan and L. Butler, REPP Discussion Paper 05/2
May 2005: Strategic Assessment of Research Performance Indicators, summary of workshop outcomes

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