Campaigners against the use of journal impact factors as a proxy for research excellence received a shot in the arm last night with the launch of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). With an impressive line-up of founding signatories, including individual scientists, research funders and journal editors, DORA states in no uncertain terms that journal impact factors (which rank journals by the average number of citations their articles receive over a given period) should not be used "as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist's contribution, or in hiring, promotion or funding decisions." · http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/may/17/science-policy

Navedenim rebalansom rashodi Ministarstva znanosti, obrazovanja i sporta povećani su za 40 milijuna od čega se 39,4 milijuna odnosi na povećanje rashoda za programe i projekte znanstveno istraživačke djelatnosti. · http://www.nsz.hr/vijesti/sto-donosi-rebalans

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