Assessing research quality

Quality versus quantity: assessing individual research performance.

Evaluating individual research performance is a complex task that ideally examines productivity, scientific impact, and research quality--a task that metrics alone have been unable to achieve. In January 2011, the French Academy of Sciences published a report on current bibliometric (citation metric) methods for evaluating individual researchers, as well as recommendations for the integration o...

Qualitative research in health care. Assessing quality in qualitative research.

Collaboratively Assessing Information Quality on the Web Research - in - Progress

The Web has become a large repository of information with varying qualities. Many users often consume information without knowing its quality. Although automatic methods can be used to obtain measurements of certain aspects of quality, they are not reliable and cannot measure all aspects of quality. Users can detect errors and reliably assess aspects of quality that cannot be measured by automa...

Assessing quality of life in research and clinical practice.

There is a growing recognition in oncology of the importance of maintaining or improving patients' quality of life (QOL) throughout the disease course. With this goal in mind, many clinical trials in oncology now seek to evaluate QOL endpoints. In using QOL measures as research tools, investigators need to consider which instrument is best suited to addressing the issues under study, how often ...

A Research Agenda toward Assessing Perceived Affective Quality of IT

Most IT evaluation and usage studies emphasize cognition or high-order affective reactions that come from more deliberate cognitive processing. A primitive concept, perceived affective quality (PAQ) of IT, has not yet attracted much attention. PAQ refers to an individual’s perception of IT’s ability to change his/her affective state. IS and psychology literature shows that PAQ has significant i...