News: the INORMS Research Evaluation Group 🎉
🌍 7 new members: Europe, Asia & Africa
🤝 “Away day” at #INORMS2025 in Madrid
🏅 More Than Our Rank now in 12 countries, 4 continents
🤖 Focus groups on MTOR, AI, SCOPE & Impact
Pushing responsible research evaluation worldwide.
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More Than Our Rank | INORMS The More Than Our Rank Initiative provides an opportunity for academic institutions to highlight the many and various ways they serve the world that are not reflected in their ranking position.

Thrilled to welcome University of Bremen & the University of Oldenburg as new German #MoreThanOurRank signatories! Celebrate diverse excellence―learn more: inorms.net/more-than-ou... 🌍🙌 and shorturl.at/W6jja

More Than Our Rank | INORMS The More Than Our Rank Initiative provides an opportunity for academic institutions to highlight the many and various ways they serve the world that are not reflected in their ranking position.

Not sure what message you’re hoping to send or which new ranking you’re referring to, but you could promote the @inorms-reg.bsky.social #MoreThanOurRank initiative here: inorms.net/more-than-ou...

Grateful to @resprofnews.bsky.social for highlighting again the importance of the @inorms-reg.bsky.social value-led #SCOPE framework to mitigate the over-use of metrics in research assessment. 👇🏻

This was an excellent session hosted by #GraspOS on exploring the role of ‘Context’ from @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE Framework, in research assessment. Check out the recording if you can. graspos.eu/community-of...

Enjoying the UK CoARA National Chapter event today. Great to hear Emma Butler's overview of the University of Derby's work to implement CoARA Commitment 4 on avoiding the use of rankings in research assessment. This has included adopting the @inorms-reg.bsky.social #MoreThanOurRank initiative. 😀

Great to see the University of Turku talking at #INORMS2025 about their use of @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE to evaluate their research ecosystem!

#inorms2025 #scope #morethanourrank #scope | INORMS Research Evaluation Group Well, it’s been a real blast! After seven years of meeting largely online, a grand total of 14 INORMS Research Evaluation Group members (of a group of 19) were able to meet in person at this year’s #I...

What an incredible experience to finally meet so many of our Research Evaluation Group @inorms-reg.bsky.social colleagues in person at #INORMS2025 in Madrid! After years of mostly online collaboration, coming together-14 out of 19 of us-was both energizing and inspiring.

Laura Himanen: Responsible research assessment does not lead to perfection but to fairer and more transparent assessments | Tampere universities In her doctoral dissertation, Laura Himanen examined what responsibility in research assessment means, why it is needed, and how it is implemented in practice.

Looking forward to Laura Himanen's PhD defense tomorrow at Tampere University www.tuni.fi/en/news/laur.... Among other things, Laura did some very interesting work as one of the developers of the @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE framework. Feeling privileged to be the opponent in Laura's defense!

Laura Himanen defending her PhD thesis - The promise of responsible research assessment.

Sitting here, proud as punch, watching our fabulous @inorms-reg.bsky.social member, Laura Himanen defend her PhD thesis. Wishing I could be there in person.

Brilliant to hear @ludowaltman.bsky.social talking about the real-world impact of the @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE framework as described in one of Laura Himanen's PhD papers.

Excited for #INORMS2025 in Madrid! The INORMS Research Evaluation Group will showcase the #SCOPE Framework & #MoreThanOurRank in 3 sessions on building better research cultures. Details & schedule here:
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Rethinking Research Assessment: Debiasing Committee Composition and Deliberative Processes | DORA This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving their policies and practices. Find the other resources in the toolkit here. Debiasing Committee Composit...

On this International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we plug our “Debiasing Committee Composition and Deliberative Processes”, a 1-pager w/strategies for diversifying perspectives & reducing biases for hiring, promotion, tenure, and funding decisions.
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@tanjastrom.bsky.social knocking it out the park, describing the @inorms-reg.bsky.social #SCOPE framework at #NARMA2025 as a mechanism for assessing research culture.

Thanks for some truly inspiring days at this year’s NARMA conference. I was honored to speak alongside Dr. Lizzie Gadd @lizziegadd.bsky.social at the session “Cultivating better research cultures through exploration, transformation & evaluation”. #ResearchCulture #RRA #SCOPEframework #NARMA2025

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The International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group (REG) brings together representatives from a range of global member research management societies to work towards better, fairer, and more meaningful research evaluation. inorms.net/research-eva...

More Than Our Rank Community Calls | INORMS The INORMS Research Evaluation Group invites you to join our More Than Our Rank Community Calls.

Free talk! 👇🏻👇🏻

Developing more responsible approaches to university assessment- the CWTS Leiden Ranking experience. Dr Nees Jan van Eck.

Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 15:00-16:00 GMT

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INORMS Initiatives: More Than Our Rank and SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation | DORA The More Than Our Rank scheme and SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation, launched by the International Network of Research Management Societies Research Evaluation Group (INORMS REG), are initiatives that both have a focus on equity in academia and research. More Than Our Rank aims to address the limitations of global university rankings and encourage academic…

INORMS Initiatives: More Than Our Rank and SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation

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More Than Our Rank Community Calls | INORMS The INORMS Research Evaluation Group invites you to join our More Than Our Rank Community Calls.

Spotlight Session: Withdrawing from the university rankings – the Utrecht story. Monday 11 December, 15.00-16.00 GMT. Book here to attend and receive the recording, no charge:

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EUA publishes guide with considerations for the use of university rankings. States: rankings continue to face criticism for choice of indicators, methods, lack of transparency on what they tell about institutional quality and excellence. #Morethanourrank

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Sarah de Rijcke:"If we want our work to be meaningful, we need to invest more in building strong academic communities that value collaboration and share a commitment to advancing research and teaching, while making a positive impact on and with society.

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More Than Our Rank Community Calls | INORMS The INORMS Research Evaluation Group invites you to join our More Than Our Rank Community Calls.

The More Than Our Rank initiative provide all universities, whether top ten or yet to place, with an opportunity to show how much more they have to offer the world than is captured in the global university rankings. Join next community call 25 October 2023

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Lizzy Gadd @LizzieGadd at this mornings keynote at #STI2023: Narratives without evidence can quickly become a fiction. But indikators without narratives are only half the story.

Responsible research assessment provides an opportunity to rebuild trust in evaluative approaches. Lizzy Gadd @LizzieGadd explored how we might achieve this with particular focus on INORMS SCOPE Framework for responsible research evaluation in this mornings keynote at #STI2023

The #SCOPE framework supports evaluators in any and every research setting to implement the many complementary principles of #RRA in the design and delivery of their evaluation approaches. In this way it bridges the gap between principles and practice.

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Thank you to the ENLIGHT EU-Network, @enlight_eu, for inviting me to keynote at today’s workshop. I shared how the SCOPE framework fits the range of responsible research assessment ideals, and how the tool help in planning and conducting research evaluations responsibly.

Newsletter September 2023 Growing pushback against the University Rankings Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) have published a report on university rankings. As part of its recommendations, they encourage organisations to sign the More Than Our Rank initiative.

Read the newsletter from INORMS Research Evaluation Group @"Newsletter på @LinkedIn

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More Than Our Rank Community Calls | INORMS The INORMS Research Evaluation Group invites you to join our More Than Our Rank Community Calls.

Join our first "More Than Our Rank" community calls. The initiative has been developed to acknowledge a more diverse definition of institutional success for every academic institution, whether ranked or unranked.

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WSJ News Exclusive | Yale and Harvard Law Schools Abandon U.S. News Rankings The schools, which for decades have dominated the U.S. News & World Report law-school ranking, are pulling out of it.

Yale Law School, which for decades has dominated the U.S. News & World Report law-school ranking, is pulling out of it, citing flawed methodologyvia @WSJ

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Research evaluation needs to change with the timesa group from [INORMS] fleshed out a framework called SCOPE. This encourages funders to design evaluation systems around the ‘values’ they wish to assess."

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