UK's HEFCE Squandering Its Credibility and Assets In Research Assessment

2009-02-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
Re: Corbyn, Zoë (2009) Conflict of interest warning over Evidence sale [to Thompson Reuters]. Times Higher Education Supplement. 22 January 2009 There is indeed not only a potential but an actual conflict of interest when the party that is comparing and assessing the

Re: UK's HEFCE Squandering Its Credibility and Assets In Research Assessment

2009-02-15 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:01 PM, c.oppenh...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: the deal for the evaluation for the REF Pilot was ALWAYS only to use Web of Knwledge as the database That is bad enough news in itself. REF should be test piloting a rich battery of multiple references, from multiple

Re: UK's HEFCE Squandering Its Credibility and Assets In Research Assessment

2009-02-15 Thread Charles Oppenheim
Having worked for Thomson companies in the past I can confirm that Thomson leaves them very much to their own devices and makes no effort to get them to follow a party line. In any case, all Evidence is doing is an analysis of the REF Pilot, not the main REF itself. contracts for running the