In the morning, I attend a workshop on a CoARA Action Plan. My university is a proud member of the CoARA coalition—a project aimed at reforming how research, researchers, and research organizations are evaluated, and at moving beyond our current reliance on publication-based metrics and rankings.
In the afternoon, I discover that my university has just as proudly announced the names of five colleagues who have been included in the latest ranking of the world’s most cited scientists, compiled by Stanford University and Elsevier.