Navigating Responsible Research Assessment Guidelines

Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) is discussed and used in many contexts. However, RRA does not have a unifying definition, and likewise its guidelines indicate that the implementation of RRA can have many different scopes.

Research assessment has a long history continuously introducing new methods, tools, and agendas, for example, peer review of publications dating back to 17th century and catalogues from the 19th century that facilitated publication counting. This blog post discusses RRA, an agenda gaining attention today. The blog post gives an introduction to RRA and discusses how to navigate RRA guidelines, which can be a complex task.