Annunciamo oggi la nascita di RT, A Journal on Research Policy and Evaluation, che la redazione di Roars ha contribuito a fondare. La nuova rivista scientifica peer-reviewed, ospitata dall’Università degli Studi di Milano, lancia una call for papers.
La rivista pubblicherà argomenti sulle seguenti tematiche
- Research and teaching evaluation methodologies and practices
- Use and extension of quantitative indicators for the study of research and higher education systems
- Current policy issues concerning higher education institutions, including perspective evaluation of ongoing reforms and retrospective assessment of past ones
- Case studies, including historical ones, on reforms or restructuring of specific research or higher education institutions, or systems thereof
- Theoretical and empirical studies on ethical issues in science, including data access and retention, selective publication of results, fraud and plagiarism, and experimentations on humans and animals
- Case studies and comparative analysis on legal aspects, law-making and design of law regarding research evaluation and policy
- Empirical studies, also in a historical perspective, on the influence of science and technology on society, especially of science and technology policy and institutions.
- Reflections from a philosophy and history of science point of view on the themes described above.