Future UK RAEs to be Metrics-Based (fwd)

[David Goodman]

Charles, 
this would seem to imply that  research in the humanities  is now mainly 
dependent upon journal articles, as it is in the sciences. -- and if its from the RAE, this might
 be applicable only in the UK? (Might there be more diffeence between countries 
in the structure of humanities research than there is in the sciences.)
According to what I've seen in Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere, 
in US research universities  the typical publication requirement for 
tenure is two monograps, and only a  few such universities have been experimenting with 
accepting journal articles as a partial substitute.)


David Goodman
dgoodman at princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Date: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:03 pm
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Future UK RAEs to be Metrics-Based (fwd)
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> Charles Oppenheim has authorised me to post this on his behalf:
> 
>    "Research I have done indicates that the same correlations between
>    RAE scores and citation counts already noted in the sciences  and
>    social sciences apply just as strongly (sometimes more strongly)
>    in the humanities!  But you are right, Richard, that metrics are
>    PERCEIVED to be inappropriate for the humanities and a lot of
>    educating is needed on this topic."
> 
>    Professor Charles Oppenheim
>    Head
>    Department of Information Science
>    Loughborough University
>