Public consultation on the draft evaluation criteria for the six-year research period call 2023

The draft evaluation criteria submitted for public consultation has been prepared by ANECA's management, after taking into consideration the contributions of the academic members of the Plenary of the CNEAI, of the presidents of the Committees that have resolved the applications in the 2022 call, of the Advisory Committee for the Evaluation of Teaching Staff (CAEP), as well as of the Evaluation and Monitoring Committee of the state accreditation system created in September.

You can access the draft criteria for the 2023 six-year research period here and check the changes incorporated by reviewing the Resolution of the previous call, of 2022, available here.

For this purpose, contributions may be sent to the following e-mail address: participacion.sexenios2023@aneca.es, stating in them:

SUBJECT OF THE MAIL: Section or sections on which the contribution is made (Preamble / General Criteria / Specific Criteria Field X / Appendix).

IN THE BODY OF THE MAIL:

• Name and surname(s) of the participant.
• University or Research Center.
• Contact (corporate e-mail).

The public consultation will be open from November 6 to 19, 2023, inclusive

In general, the contributions received will be considered for public dissemination. The parts of the information submitted that, in the opinion of the person concerned, should be treated as confidential and therefore should not be freely disseminated, should be specifically marked in red in the text of the contribution itself, not being considered for these purposes the generic messages of confidentiality of information. Anonymized contributions or contributions without a corporate e-mail address will not be accepted.

Summary of the changes introduced

The main objective of this update is to adjust this Resolution to the new Organic Law 2/2023, of March 22, of the University System (LOSU), and to give coherence to this program of evaluation of research activity with the provisions of Royal Decree 678/2023, of July 18, which regulates the state accreditation for access to university teaching bodies and the system of competitive examinations for access to positions in these bodies.

Thus, the preamble of the Resolution has been modified and the general criteria established for all fields (section I) have been updated, with the aim of introducing the principles of the LOSU, which lead, among other modifications, to accept a greater diversity of contributions, to move towards new forms of evaluation that focus on the relevance and impact of each contribution and not only on the means of dissemination, to promote open access and the use of institutional and thematic repositories, or to positively value multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research.

Furthermore, in compliance with the commitments acquired by ANECA with its adhesion to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and to the principles of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) last April, the Agency already integrates in this call the guidelines of the international movement for the reform of research assessment. To this end, the Agency has worked on a thorough revision of the Appendix to the Resolution, so as to facilitate the identification of dimensions, metrics and sources to endorse the relevance and impact of the contributions submitted, which cannot be limited to indexing in a particular database.

Likewise, a common structure has been designed for the exposition of the specific criteria of each field (section II), in order to guarantee homogeneity and clarity in the information provided to the applicants and to be consistent with the general criteria mentioned above.

From ANECA's management, we are working on this update of the six-year research period program with the conviction that it is an opportunity to promote a greater diversity of research careers and to overcome certain incentives that have been questioned for years by the scientific community.