Metascience Sandpit: Scientometrics for research assessment

This sandpit will be a four-day, highly interactive process, convening researchers and practitioners to co-develop projects that develop, validate and critically assess novel scientometric indicators for use in research assessment and metascience. 

This sandpit will focus on three key areas where improved scientometric indicators could have significant impact: 

• Evaluation of research portfolios, for instance, in national research assessment exercises, internal analyses by research institutions, or for use by research funders.   
• Individual programme or project-level evaluation within a public or private research institution or research funding organisation. 
• The field of metascience where no standard suite of agreed measures exists to enable consistent comparison of research and policy interventions.