The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters (formerly Thomson Scientific) and King's College London have announced that they will be hosting a one-day event - Beyond the RAE 2008: Bibliometrics, League Tables and the REF. To be held at King's College London on April 30, 2008, the event is projected to help inform universities about appropriate uses of citation data in research evaluation. It is also seen to provide a forum to discuss and plan for future evaluative activities around the upcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF), the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
The conference, developed primarily for those preparing their institutions for the REF, will feature speakers from the Higher Education Funding Council, the Center for Science and Technology Studies, Evidence Ltd. and Thomson Reuters. An external perspective will be provided by the Australian Research Evaluation and Policy Project. The speakers will describe best practices in citation analysis and discuss strategies to assist universities in the data collection and evaluation process. In addition, case studies from King's College London, the University of Leicester, and the University of Southampton will describe these institutions' experiences in collecting and managing research output metadata.
Attendees will also participate in a survey to determine the key issues they confront and their experiences to date with research evaluation.
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