{"588779":{"#nid":"588779","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leiden Manifesto Wins the Ziman Award of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo years ago, on 23 April 2015, Professor Diana Hicks in the School of Public Policy and co-authors published in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/bibliometrics-the-leiden-manifesto-for-research-metrics-1.17351\u0022\u003ENature the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics\u003C\/a\u003E offering 10 principles to guide use of metrics in research evaluation.\u0026nbsp; In 2016, the Manifesto received the Ziman award of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for collaborative promotion of public interaction with science and technology.\u0026nbsp; The award citation noted that the Leiden Manifesto is an initiative to engage with the rise of metrics based research assessment by articulating a set of principles which draw on the insights of science and technology studies on the nature of knowledge.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe manifesto represents a serious and successful public-facing and comprehensible interpretation of the technical area of metrics. Much research evaluation practice and discourse is quite narrowly national in nature, in contrast the manifesto is shared by a wide audience generating a wider international European and global conversation. Its global relevance is shown by the number of translations.\u0026nbsp; Volunteers have translated the manifesto into \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.leidenmanifesto.org\/translations.html\u0022\u003E15 languages\u003C\/a\u003E: simplified \u0026amp; traditional Chinese, Russian, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Swedish, Finnish, Persian, Slovak, Basque and Catalan.\u0026nbsp; The translations are mounted on a website: leidenmanifesto.org seen by over 200 unique visitors every day.\u0026nbsp; A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vimeo.com\/133683418\u0022\u003Evideo version\u003C\/a\u003E of the manifesto is mounted on Vimeo and has been played over 2,300 times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Leiden Manifesto draws on state of the art knowledge on research metrics and is linked to an extensive range of international projects, publications, conferences, workshops and networks.\u0026nbsp; The article has been viewed over 60,000 times on Nature\u0026rsquo;s website, and has accumulated 259 citations in Google Scholar, 128 in Scopus and 55 in Web of Science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe manifesto addresses a broad audience tasked with assessing research performance with the ultimate goal of assuring public accountability.\u0026nbsp; The initiative is designed to influence evaluation practice and is an impressive effort to take specialized knowledge into a wide policy arena.\u0026nbsp; The university senates of Ghent, Loughborough, Bath and Indiana Bloomington have developed principles for application of research metrics in their institutions that are explicitly based on the Leiden Manifesto.\u0026nbsp; The principles have guided research policy discussions in Brazil, Panama and Portugal, and have been promoted by Thomson Reuters, then owner of the Web of Science database.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe authors continue to track developments on the blog at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.leidenmanifesto.org\/\u0022\u003Eleidenmaniesto.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Diana Hicks in the School of Public Policy and co-authors published in Nature the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics offering 10 principles to guide use of metrics in research evaluation, which last year received the EASST Ziman award."}],"uid":"32864","created_gmt":"2017-03-14 21:15:16","changed_gmt":"2017-03-14 21:15:53","author":"Ryan McDonnell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588776":{"id":"588776","type":"image","title":"Professor Diana Hicks\u00a0","body":null,"created":"1489525536","gmt_created":"2017-03-14 21:05:36","changed":"1498597292","gmt_changed":"2017-06-27 21:01:32","alt":"Professor Diana Hicks ","file":{"fid":"224382","name":"Diana Hicks.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Diana%20Hicks.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Diana%20Hicks.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":130796,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Diana%20Hicks.jpg?itok=WUcEbDtQ"}}},"media_ids":["588776"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}