Valutazione della ricerca

Francesco Sylos Labini Centro Fermi & ISC-CNR Roma http://ricercatorialberi.blogspot.com/ http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/flabini/ http://ricercatorialberi.blogspot.com Valutazione

How should Research be Organised? Donald Gillies, College Publication, 2008
Economics and Research Assessment Systems Donald Gillies, In the press, 2011
La Scienza Malata? Come la burocrazia soffoca la ricerca Laurent Ségalat, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2010
Du bon usage de la bibliométrie pour l’évalutation individuelle des chercheurs Institut de France, Académie de sciences, 2010
Valutare la ricerca scientifica, Uso ed abuso degli indicatori bibliometrici Alberto Baccini, Il Mulino, 2010
Bibliografia essenziale

Valutazione: problema chiave Se una ipotetica commissione che avesse dovuto decidere del finanziamento di un “ progetto ” al tempo T 0 che poi ha portato al “ Nobel ” al tempo T 1 >T 0 , ed avesse applicato un dato criterio (ad esempio metrico) avrebbe preso la decisione giusta?

Prevedere il futuro ….. Valutazione: problema chiave

Analisi dei criteri di valutazione da un punto di vista storico Valutazione: problema chiave

Top 5%
Spazio alle fluttuazioni (50%)
Finanziamento a pioggia (100%)
Strategie per la divisione della torta La competizione è il motore della ricerca ?

“ … . Nella ricerca conta solo l' eccellenza: ciò che non è eccellente non lascia traccia nella Storia . ” (Francesco Giavazzi, 22.11.2004, Corriere della Sera)

The two papers in Science 2004 and Nature 2005 are the most cited papers on graphene … The Science paper has also been acknowledged as “one of the most cited recent papers in the field of Physics”. 2010 Valutazione: problema chiave

A Research Assessment System (or RAS) is a system in which groups of researchers are assessed at intervals. If the assessment is good, the group retains its funding or gets more, while, if the assessment is bad, the group’s funds are reduced or perhaps removed altogether. Research Assessment Exercise

RAE introduced by Thatcher in 1986
RAEs are carried out every few years in all the universities of the UK.
Committee of assessors (academics) in each subject.
The department submits the selected papers to the assessment committee.
Committee study this research output and grade the department
Research Assessment Exercise

The departments which score well on the RAE are provided with research funds.
Those which don’t score so well are provided with much smaller funds for research
The members of such departments have to spend more time on teaching.
Recently there have even been moves in some universities to close altogether departments which perform badly on the RAE
Research Assessment Exercise

RAE is a costly operation.
Professional administrators (extra administrative staff)
Extra work involved in the RAE (the time of academics also costs money, this too adds to the cost of the RAE).
Research Assessment Exercise The question then naturally arises as to whether this expensive procedure has actually improved the research produced in the UK. Strange to say this question is rarely asked: Could it be making the research output of the UK worse instead of better?

Peer review: the original RAE was based entirely on peer review.
Biblio-metrics
Assessment of the value of the research work

Mature natural sciences as ‘normal science’  same ‘paradigm’
Scientific revolutions  new paradigm.
Social sciences -->competing schools with different paradigms
Single vs. multi-paradigm situation (Economics and Research Assessment Systems Donald Gillies, In the press, 2011)

Theoretical physics : relativity theory and quantum mechanics
Economics: different schools with different political ideologies : Neo-Classical Economics, the various versions of Keynesianism, and Marxist Economics.
Physics vs Economics (Economics and Research Assessment Systems Donald Gillies, In the press, 2011)

My claim is that the research work of the members of whichever school has the largest number of members will receive the highest valuation. So if school A is in the majority, the members of school A will receive the highest valuation. If school B is in the majority, then the members of school B will receive the highest valuation, and so on. If a Research Assessment System is applied to such a community, what result will it give? (Economics and Research Assessment Systems Donald Gillies, In the press, 2011)

http://www.letteraapertavalutazionericerca.it/

http://ricercatorialberi.blogspot.com http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1008.1586

E’ possibile fare una classifica di scienziati (o dei progetti di ricerca) come se si trattasse di tennisti ? Valutazione: strumenti bibliometrici

“ Before we develop a pseudoscience of citation analysis, we should remind ourselves that what matters absolutely is the scientific content of a paper and that nothing will substitute for either knowing it or reading it. We should also recognize that citation often tells us more about the sociology of than about the science itself”
Sydney Brenner “Citation Science”
Science 3 July 1998: Vol. 281 no. 5373 p. 53
http://ricercatorialberi.blogspot.com Valutazione: strumenti bibliometrici

Valutazione: strumenti bibliometrici

http://ricercatorialberi.blogspot.com Valutazione: fisici

http://ricercatorialberi.blogspot.com Valutazione: economisti

Valutazione delle chiacchere

Campi con diversi paradigmi
Campi in cui i soggetti non sono “universali” (o globali)
Campi interdisciplinari
Campi applicativi
Aspetti critici (ed irrisolti)

Conclusioni
Valutare è necessario ma molto delicato
Cultura della valutazione
Ogni campo ha una storia a sé
E’ difficile valutare chi lavora
E’ facile identificare chi non lavora

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