Research project
Research Evaluation and Epistemic Change
This project explores how national research evaluation systems influence research content. Addressing past methodological and causal analysis issues, it applies a new approach to identify these effects. CWTS will oversee Dutch case studies.
- Duration
- 2025 - 2028
- Contact
- Thomas Franssen
- Funding
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Partners
Technical University Berlin and INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Valencia
There has been a long-standing interest in how national governance evaluation systems (evaluations institutionalised by research policy or research management) affect the content of research. However, proving such influence turned out to be notoriously difficult due to both methodological weaknesses and to unsuitable approaches to causal analysis in previous research. The aim of our project is to overcome these weaknesses of previous research and to identify the causal contribution of external evaluations to changes in research content by using a new approach to causal analysis. CWTS will contribute to the study by supervising the Dutch case studies.