Ten principles for best practice metrics-based research assessment

Nature has published “The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics”, a compilation of ten principles for best practices of research metrics-based research assessment led by Professor Diana Hicks at Georgia Tech led in collaboration with Paul Wouters, Ludo Waltman, Sarah de Rijcke and Ismael Rafols.

http://www.nature.com/news/bibliometrics-the-leiden-manifesto-for-research-metrics-1.17351

The principles of the manifesto were formulated on the basis of input from the scientometric community during a  special session on the development of good practices for metrics use at the STI/ENID conference in Leiden (September 2014). See: https://citationculture.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/the-leiden-manifesto-in-the-making-proposal-of-a-set-of-principles-on-the-use-of-assessment-metrics-in-the-st-indicators-conference/