Out With the Old and in With the New: the RAE, Bibliometrics and the New REF

Abstract
For decades, the UK’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has been a familiar, if unloved, feature of its higher education landscape. Every few years, UK universities have to prepare detailed submissions explaining how their various departments and research units have conducted research, the outputs from that research, and have to provide a mass of statistics on, for example, the numbers of staff in each so-called UoA (Unit of Assessment – i.e....
Paper Details
Title
Out With the Old and in With the New: the RAE, Bibliometrics and the New REF
Published Date
Sep 1, 2008
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