research evaluation

Slowly forward, almost backward: reforming research evaluation in Italy. Executive Summary

Posted on 30 May 2024, updated on 5 June 2024 by Maria Chiara Pievatolo

An English version of the executive summary of the conference Avanti piano, quasi indietro: la riforma europea della valutazione della ricerca in Italia is now available here.

ANVUR’s rule: state evaluation and open peer review in Italy

Posted on 19 January 2024, updated on 19 January 2024 by Maria Chiara Pievatolo

This summer the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research Systems (ANVUR) denied scientificity and excellence (“classe A”) to Open Research Europe (ORE) for general sociology. Recently, however, ANVUR has updated its rules for classifying journals, adding an article 18 entitled ‘Transitional regulation for open peer review’. The ORE affair was the […]

Taking all the running one can do, to keep in the same place: ANVUR’s complicated relationship with the COARA agreement

Posted on 7 November 2023, updated on 16 October 2024 by Maria Chiara Pievatolo

1. An unpromising starting point In a 2018 article, Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao described the Italian academic system as “an unprecedented in vivo experiment in governing and controlling research and teaching via automatic bibliometric tools”. Italian universities and research institutions are subject to widespread bibliometric measurements. Their use in research evaluation exercises (Valutazione […]