Four expert panels are expected to oversee the peer review process and to assess scientific performance, productivity and operation of the CUNI as a whole and its units within given research areas and its corresponding fields (see CUNI internal clasification).
Panel’s assessment will constitute the Research Area Evaluation Reports (RA-Reports) based on the information provided to the panel:
Peer-reviews of selected scientific outputs
Answers to panel’s ad-hoc questions and/or site-visits
Panel’s RA-Reports will be used by the Research Evaluation Board to prepare the Final Report.
Subject to panel’s assessment should primarily be:
Publication performance (research outputs) in panel’s research areas accounting for quality and/or relevance, novelty, and scientific rigour. Overall scientific performance (i.e. qualitative profile of all outputs) in each field within panel’s research areas should be assessed based on the bibliometric report + peer-review evaluations of selected best outputs + information on other outputs.
Best bibliometricaly evaluated outputs (articles in WoS journals) vis-a-vis selected (best) peer-reviewed outputs within each field; comparison of fields’ performance within their research area.
Scientific productivity of fields relating outputs to inputs such as the size of scientific personnel, financial resources, and research facilities.
Contributions of CUNI units to the overall performance of CUNI in given field and research area.
Quality and good practice benchmarks of panel’s assessment should refer to European continental universities and best practice. Where suitable and possible, partner universities shell be considered as benchmarks (see pre-selected benchmark institutions). Panel chairs and vice-chairs have to coordinate via the Research Evaluation Board to secure that the same strictness (quality scales) and standards are used by all four panels.
The panel should reflect that CUNI intends to use the assessment:
to inform its International Advisory Board, top management and management of CUNI units (see University Bodies and Regulations),
for strategic development of fields and research areas,
for internal governance concerning human resources management, facilities, expansion, reduction, restructuring of a research portfolio,
to allocate institutional funding and other support to CUNI units,
to inform management of internal CUNI programmes supporting R&D, to inform development, accreditation, and assessment of CUNI study programmes.
August – October ’19:
on-line meetings
to debate, agree and stipulate aspects of outputs to be assessed by peer-reviews
to understand and agree on grading scales + examples, standards and benchmarks
to add, remove and agree on outputs’ reviewers
October’19 – March’20:
on a distant basis, panelists assign selected research outputs to reviewers and solicit their assessment
March – May’20:
panel has received reports for all selected outputs from peer-reviewers + Units’ self-evaluation reports + bibliometric reports
if suitable, panel stipulates its ad-hoc questions to be answered either by CUNI or CUNI Unit management upon meeting in Prague
panel meets in Prague to debate and agree on terms of assessment stipulated in a RA-Report draft
first day can be devoted to ad-hoc site visits or bilateral meetings with invited representatives of CUNI Units
June’20:
panel submits its final RA-Report to the Evaluation Board