@CoARAssessment The Italian government-appointed, non-independent agency for research evaluation has finally released its action plan. It cannot be called disappointing, because from the (beginning) (https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/taking-all-the-running-one-can-do-to-keep-in-the-same-place-anvurs-complicated-relationship-with-the-coara-agreement/) the agency was not in line with the commitments it had signed.

Why, then, did it join #COARA?

Clinging to #bibliometrics as a weapon of mass evaluation is unavoidable for an agency whose authority is administrative, not scientific, and whose purpose is to survive and preserve its enormous, pervasive power. (The latest AISA statement explores this hypothesis)(https://aisa.sp.unipi.it/on-statistics-and-virtue-anvurs-criteria-for-the-evaluation-of-research-quality-vqr-2020-2024-and-the-european-reform-of-research-evaluation-coara/)

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2023-11-07 17:54:17

1. An unpromising starting point
In a 2018 article, Alberto Baccini and Giuseppe De Nicolao described the Italian academic system as “an unprecedented in vivo experiment in governing and controlling research and teaching via automatic bibliometric tools”. Italian universities and research institutions are subject to widespread bibliometric […]

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Taking all the running one can do, to keep in the same place: ANVUR’s complicated relationship with the COARA agreement | AISA

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