Abstract
Evaluating whether a portfolio of funded research projects (of a research council), or a
portfolio of research papers (the output of a university) is relevant for science and for society
required two-dimensional mapping of the project portfolio: (i) projecting the portfolio on a
science map showing how the portfolio fits into and possibly shapes the research fronts, and
(ii) projecting the portfolio on a map of societal challenges, showing where the portfolio links
to societal problem solving or innovation. This requires evaluating in two different
‘languages’: a technical language relating projects to the research front, and a societal
language relating the projects to societal challenges. In this paper, we demonstrate a method
for doing so, using the SMS-platform. The advantage is that the method is much less
dependent on subjective classifications by single experts or a small group of experts, and that
it is rather user-friendly.
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