12/09/2018
View the new criteria for the issuance of preliminary reports for tenure-eligible lecturers
On 19 June 2018 AQU's Research Assessment Committee (CAR) agreed to amend the criteria for the issuance of preliminary reports for tenure-eligible lecturers.
The new version of the criteria will enter in effect with the second call for applications in 2018 for tenure-eligible lecturers, which will be launched on 1 October 2018.
The changes are essentially as follows:
- Social Sciences
- New classification for contributions in the form of articles:
Type Description Level A
For all fields of knowledge in the Social Sciences: JCR Q1, JCR Q2; Scopus Q1 (SJR) For Law: CARHUS A Level B For all fields of knowledge in the Social Sciences: JCR Q3; Scopus Q2 (SJR) For Law: CARHUS B Level C For all fields of knowledge in the Social Sciences: JCR Q4; Scopus Q3 (SJR) For Law: CARHUS C
- New weightage of the scores for the different sections. In this regard:
- the sub-dimension of "Congresses" has been moved to "Other merits" under research,
- the dimension of "Training" has been increased from 15% to 20% of the overall weighting in order to underline the importance of post-doctoral research stays,
- the dimension of "Teaching experience", has been changed from 25% to 20% of the overall weighting.
- In addition, a twofold condition has now been set in order to pass the evaluation::
- A minimum of 50 points must be obtained.
- A minimum score of 30 points must be obtained in the "Publications" sub-section.
- Engineering and Architecture
- The inclusion of GGS (GII-GRIN-SCIE) conference rating as assessable contributions.
- Experimental Sciences
- • Merits in training are rated separately, according to doctoral, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral level.