1 Performance Assessment of Belgian Researchers

Performance evaluations and rankings have become all pervasive. Rating agencies are evaluating countries and banks, consulting agencies are assessing the performance of companies, human resource offices are evaluating their workers. The evaluation culture has invaded all aspects of our life; only evaluators appear to have escaped this evaluation frenzy. Historians will perhaps remember the start of the 21 century as a period where more effort was spent on evaluating than on producing.