Call for global overhaul of research evaluation gaining traction

I don’t see how these ‘principles’ would better help to identify the best researchers. Anyway, metrics are not taken seriously in uk universities in many fields, especially those in which big funding is available. Publications are a tick box criterion and not of great importance. The only time publications are mentioned in anger is in relation to REF, where we asked for s tiny number and are not allowed to mention any metrics!!! The main thing is money, along with effective internal self promotion. It’s not uncommon even in the so called top universities to see chair positions handed out to people with fewer than 30 journal papers and only a few hundred citations. It wasn’t like this 3 decades ago.