ShareThe Research Assessment Commission approves the criteria for the 2024 six-yearly research period assessment.
Important changes are adopted in the selection process that will open on 15 January 2024.
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The Research Assessment Commission (CAR) has approved the criteria and procedure for the assessment of the research sections for 2024, which incorporate important changes following the adoption of the guidelines of the international reform movements of the 'scientific assessment such as DORA or CoARA, as well as the modification of the regulatory framework (LOSU) that ANECA has also collected in the six-year selection process for the official PDI in the rest of the State.
As such, the main new features that should be highlighted are the following:
- Broadening the type of contributions that applicants can submit for assessment in order to recognise a greater diversity of research profiles and careers in a context that favours multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.
- A shift towards a more qualitative assessment supported by a responsible use of quantitative indicators. Therefore, applicants will have to provide in the application a narrative justification of the evidence of relevance and impact of each contribution, accompanied by a responsible use of quantitative indicators.
- The need to promote open scientific contribution and open science to society and the need to use institutional repositories as a form of access to documentation, to guarantee the agility of evaluation procedures. Since 2017, the Agency has already offered applicants the possibility of including their contributions from the Open Data Catalogue of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
- The creation of a new taxonomy of metrics that respond to the need to accredit the scientific impact of the contribution, as well as the impact of the contributions on the generation of social impact, as evidenced, for example, through contributions to the design and implementation of public policies, development of solutions to social problems, etc.
You can find information about the criteria by clicking on this link:
RESOLUCIÓ REU/4404/2023, of 22 December, which publicises the assessment criteria for research activity of the teaching and research staff of the Catalan public universities for the assignment of additional complements for research merits.