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October 2018

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.  
  
   

PDF Criteria for the issue of tenure-track lecturer reports