Assessing the quality and impact of research:Practices and initiatives in scholarly communication

摘要

This public conference pursues a theme that ICSTI started this year on Evaluation and Metrics. A pre-ceding conference on a similar subject was held in January 2007 in London, associated to the ICSTIWinter Meeting. It was hosted by the British Library and was entitled: "User Behavior and Its Metrics:Monitoring the Needs of Scholarly Authors and Researchers"! Today's conference addresses the maintheme of assessing the quality and impact of research. It focuses on three aspects: Quality, Certificationand Peer Review, Tools and Metrics, and Practices and Perspectives of Research Evaluation.