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Measuring science. REF? QR? A plague on both their houses

by Len Fisher | 3 Aug 2015 | News, Stray Thoughts

My (unpublished) Letter to the Guardian, July 28th, 2015 James Wilsdon writes “In defence of the REF” (Guardian, July 27th (2015)), as opposed to the IEA’s call for quality-related funding of scientific and other research. But neither scheme takes account the known...

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