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Can societal impact of scientific work in the process of re-accreditation of higher education institutions and public scientific institutes in the Republic of Croatia

In this paper we will present a model study aimed in the direction of developing a theoretical framework for measuring societal impact of research. We will focus on a case study of the evaluation process for measuring performance of public higher education institutions (HEIs) inside universities and public research institutes in Republic of Croatia. A proposed framework will be a hybrid which will be a pondered combination of standard bibliometric metrics combined with a metric measuring the societal impact of research. For that we will follow (Spaapen and van Drooge, 2011) which proposes evaluation based on assessing a sample of societal interactions submitted by an institution under evaluation as representative for their practice. In this context, basing our case study on the reports submitted by Croatian HEIs and public research institutes in the process of reaccreditation is meaningful since there precisely such data is collected and reported by the institutions. Also, on top of that we have a repot by expert evaluators which can be analysed as a text and can be a basis of objective measurement and thus reduce a possible bias in the results. In the rest of the paper we will review bibliometric indicators as a measurement tool, then we will present a framework of the accreditation process in Croatia. Finally, we will show preliminary results and indicated initial conclusions as well as possible directions for further research.

societal impact of scientific work, Croatian system of higher education and science

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