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Indicators

Indicators allow you to demonstrate that your research has made a difference. But which indicator is best suited to your research? And what should you focus on when using an indicator? Read our tips on using indicators and best practices. Find inspiration in our database with hundreds of indicators.

The blogs on indicators cover topics including the abundance of indicators, what to look out for before using indicators, and what quality criteria exist for indicators.

Indicators Database Research

More than 100 indicators have been collected from literature on evaluating research at research universities and universities of applied sciences. If you want to quickly find an indicator suited to your research, you can use the database.

9 June 2021 in Indicatoren

Indicators: from excess to toolbox

There is no shortage of indicators when it comes to determining the impact of research. Bornmann (2013), for instance, lists some 60 indicators on social impact, and U-Multirank’s 100+ indicators…
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19 August 2021 in Indicatoren

Before deploying indicators

Often, indicators are ‘filled in’ quantitatively: number of publications, percentage of student participation in research, size of total second-flow funding, and so on. Figures tend to take on a life…
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31 August 2021 in Indicatoren

What is a good indicator?

Apart from the substantive question of which indicator to choose, a relevant question is also whether the indicator is appropriate. After all, not all indicators are the same . Indicators…
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