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  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,269 Views
16 Pages

7 April 2022

The categorical evaluation of scientific research efficiency is of great significance to technological innovation and research management. It is also helpful to promote the sustainable development of basic research and applied research in universitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,337 Views
11 Pages

27 December 2022

Innovation processes in the Spanish and international educational models have evolved, especially over the last 40 years. Technological expansion and development have been integrated, albeit belatedly, into the field of education. There have been cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,942 Views
23 Pages

20 July 2024

The evaluation and management of frontier fundamental research projects for future advanced aircraft engines are challenging due to the need to balance assessing the innovative potential and technical risks with considering their long-term effects an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,108 Views
26 Pages

Evaluation of Technology Platforms for Use in Transdisciplinary Research

  • Pratap Chillakanti,
  • Stephen Ekwaro-Osire and
  • Atila Ertas

7 January 2021

Transdisciplinary research (TR) is a growing field in a myriad of subject domains ranging from sustainability to education. The idea is to solve complex problems through the collaborative participation of academic actors, community stakeholders, gove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,612 Views
24 Pages

30 October 2022

Based on the two-dimensional University Research Evaluation System (URES), this paper aimed to develop a comprehensive and scientific measurement scale and to empirically verify the impact of the URES on scholars’ empathy and willingness to inn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,823 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2022

The strategic relevance of innovation and scientific research has amplified the attention towards the definition of quality in research practice. However, despite the proliferation of evaluation metrics and procedures, there is a need to go beyond bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,191 Views
24 Pages

The Challenge of Transdisciplinary Research: A Case Study of Learning by Evaluation for Sustainable Transport Infrastructures

  • Robert Axelsson,
  • Magnus Ljung,
  • Malgorzata Blicharska,
  • Michael Frisk,
  • Marianne Henningsson,
  • Grzegorz Mikusiński,
  • Lennart Folkeson,
  • Görgen Göransson,
  • Sofia Jönsson-Ekström and
  • Per Angelstam
  • + 3 authors

27 August 2020

While transdisciplinary (TD) research is desired in order to solve real world sustainability issues, this may be challenging for both academic and non-academic participants. Supporting learning through evaluation, we analyzed a project aiming at sust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,123 Views
14 Pages

2 November 2022

With the popularity of educational evaluation studies, researchers have begun to mine text data to provide helpful information for educational stakeholders. Despite the frequent adoption of textual analysis, few studies have been found to search and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,620 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2022

Our research aims to establish an evaluation framework and evaluate the sustainability of scientific research in universities. Based on the concept of Education for Sustainable Development and the function of scientific research activities, an evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,166 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2020

This study proposes super efficiency (SE) as an efficient analytical method for evaluating the performance of energy research projects. Because the SE method is based on data envelopment analysis (DEA), it is free from the difficulty of weighting out...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,193 Views
20 Pages

Shifting Power in Practice: Implementing Relational Research and Evaluation in Conservation Science

  • Tamara J. Layden,
  • Sofía Fernández,
  • Mynor Sandoval-Lemus,
  • Kelsey J. Sonius,
  • Dominique David-Chavez and
  • Sara P. Bombaci

17 October 2024

Elevating Indigenous leadership in conservation science is critical for social and ecological wellbeing. However, Indigenous knowledges are frequently undermined by persistent colonial research standards. In response, calls to implement ethical guide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,832 Views
13 Pages

The WellComm toolkit is used across many areas of the UK to identify and support early years children with their speech, language and communication. There is some evidence for positive outcomes for children who are assessed and supported using the to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
289 Views
21 Pages

From Inclusive Research to Inclusive Evaluation: Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities to Shape the Services They Use

  • Patricia O’Brien,
  • Roy McConkey,
  • Bruce O’Brien,
  • Sarah Butler and
  • Edurne Garcia Iriarte

22 December 2025

This article explores how people with intellectual disabilities can be more involved in evaluating and regulating the services they use and the quality of their lives. Traditionally, these evaluations have been performed by professionals, but we argu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,685 Views
10 Pages

Improving Documentation of Nutritional Care in A Nursing Home: An Evaluation of A Participatory Action Research Project

  • Christine Hillestad Hestevik,
  • Ella Heyerdahl,
  • Bjørg Lysne Garaas,
  • Gerd Sylvi Sellevold and
  • Marianne Molin

Background: Nursing home patients at nutritional risk are often not identified, nor given entitled nutritional treatment. One approach proven suitable to facilitate change in clinical practise is participatory action research (PAR). This is a process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,827 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2022

Excess dietary sodium is a global public health priority, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease are high. The International Development Research Centre funded a research consortium of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,081 Views
20 Pages

Evidence-based practice is a salient solution that has been presented to address the persistent educational attainment gap linked to economic disadvantage. However, most schools do not engage with research, and we know little about facilitating schoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,518 Views
15 Pages

1 April 2020

Strengthening the research-policy interface is dependent on conducting good research, as well as the appropriateness and applicability of identified policy options. The involvement of relevant stakeholders in collaborative research efforts to co-prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,247 Views
22 Pages

Innovations in dental sciences are potentially disruptive; however, the language barrier in the case of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) limits access to scientific studies. There is a necessity to measure the development of dental research acro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,037 Views
15 Pages

30 May 2024

Scientific communication holds a pivotal role within research institutions. This study establishes three distinct categories of indicators, tailored to the unique attributes of these institutions, aiming to assess their performance in scientific comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,030 Views
22 Pages

3 November 2024

The renovation and revitalization of vernacular architecture are pivotal in sustainable rural development. In regions like Shangri-La, traditional structures not only safeguard cultural heritage but also provide a foundation for enhancing local commu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,978 Views
13 Pages

Democratizing Quantitative Data Analysis and Evaluation in Community-Based Research Through a New Automated Tool

  • Jonathan Bennett,
  • Mehdi Hajilo,
  • Anna Paula Della Rosa,
  • Rachel Arthur,
  • Wesley James and
  • Karen Matthews

Data from community-based research offer crucial insights into community needs, challenges, and strengths, informing effective decision making for development strategies. To ensure efficient analysis, accessible and user-friendly tools are necessary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
998 Views
16 Pages

We report on the results of the application of a method and tool for ontology construction in the research information domain, held in the context of an open data initiative of Flanders. The method emphasizes the use of natural language descriptions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,118 Views
17 Pages

Research and Evaluation in a Child-Focused Place-Based Initiative: West Philly Promise Neighborhood

  • Félice Lê-Scherban,
  • Irene Headen,
  • Adena M. Klem,
  • Kelley Traister,
  • Erikka Gilliam,
  • Maggie Beverly,
  • Matthew Jannetti,
  • Joanne Ferroni and
  • Amy Carroll-Scott

Place-based initiatives attempt to reduce persistent health inequities through multisectoral, cross-system collaborations incorporating multiple interventions targeted at varying levels from individuals to systems. Evaluations of these initiatives ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,759 Views
17 Pages

Studies on methods to share nursing and learning experiences with preceptors are lacking. This study was conducted to determine the preliminary effects of developing and applying a reflective practice program for preceptor nurses who experience stres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,994 Views
10 Pages

Evaluating Research Partnerships through ISO 56003 Guidelines, RRI Concepts, and Ex Post Facto Cases

  • Izabela Simon Rampasso,
  • Rodnei Bertazzoli,
  • Thais Dibbern,
  • Milena Pavan Serafim,
  • Walter Leal Filho,
  • Carolina Rojas-Córdova and
  • Rosley Anholon

1 April 2022

This article aims to evaluate improvements in opportunities for research partnerships focused on innovation, considering the ISO 56003 guidelines, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) concepts, and the experiences of the authors of this article,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,658 Views
19 Pages

University–Community Partnerships Using a Participatory Action Research Model to Evaluate the Impact of Dance for Health

  • Rahshida Atkins,
  • Janet A. Deatrick,
  • Cory Bowman,
  • Ansley Bolick,
  • Ian McCurry and
  • Terri H. Lipman

14 December 2018

Little is known about fostering sustainable, collaborative community-academic partnerships that effectively improve physical activity and health in residents of under resourced communities using Participatory Action Research (PAR) driven models. The...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,545 Views
42 Pages

Comprehensive Evaluation of Agrivoltaics Research: Breadth, Depth, and Insights for Future Research

  • Kai Lepley,
  • Hanna Fields,
  • Chong Seok Choi,
  • Thomas Hickey,
  • Benny Towner,
  • Brittany Staie,
  • James McCall,
  • Julia Chamberland and
  • Jordan Macknick

8 September 2025

Agrivoltaics integrates agricultural production with solar energy generation to address challenges related to land use, food security, and renewable energy development. This study provides the most comprehensive evaluation to date of global agrivolta...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,186 Views
16 Pages

Partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: An Evaluation Study Protocol to Strengthen a Comprehensive Multi-Scale Evaluation Framework for Participatory Systems Modelling through Indigenous Paradigms and Methodologies

  • Grace Yeeun Lee,
  • Julie Robotham,
  • Yun Ju C. Song,
  • Jo-An Occhipinti,
  • Jakelin Troy,
  • Tanja Hirvonen,
  • Dakota Feirer,
  • Olivia Iannelli,
  • Victoria Loblay and
  • Ian Bernard Hickie
  • + 4 authors

The social and emotional wellbeing of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be supported through an Indigenous-led and community empowering approach. Applying systems thinking via participatory approaches is aligned with Aborigin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,692 Views
28 Pages

7 April 2024

The contradiction between urban construction and sustainable development has led to an increasing demand for urban underground space (UUS). The value evaluation of urban underground space (UUSVE) is of great significance in promoting the rational dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,505 Views
20 Pages

Research on an Evaluation Method for the Adaptability of TBM Tunnelling

  • Zhongsheng Tan,
  • Zonglin Li,
  • Zhenliang Zhou,
  • Haixiang Lai,
  • Yifeng Jiao,
  • Fengyuan Li and
  • Liming Wang

30 April 2022

When a TBM carries out tunnelling in complex strata, there is often low tunnelling efficiency and an increase in tunnelling costs due to the improper selection of tunnelling parameters, the wrong estimation of geological conditions, or adverse geolog...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,982 Views
8 Pages

Given the different types of artifacts and their various evaluation methods, one of the main challenges faced by researchers in design science research (DSR) is choosing suitable and efficient methods during the artifact evaluation phase. With the em...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,718 Views
18 Pages

Research Project Evaluation—Learnings from the PATHWAYS Project Experience

  • Aleksander Galas,
  • Aleksandra Pilat,
  • Matilde Leonardi and
  • Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk

Background: Every research project faces challenges regarding how to achieve its goals in a timely and effective manner. The purpose of this paper is to present a project evaluation methodology gathered during the implementation of the Participation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,859 Views
17 Pages

An Innovative Biomedical Research Training Model: Rationale, Design, and Evaluation

  • Payam Sheikhattari,
  • Shiva Mehravaran,
  • Jummai Apata,
  • Gillian Silver,
  • Shamara Murphy,
  • Sylvia Hurtado and
  • Farin Kamangar

Much is told regarding the need for greater diversity in the biomedical research workforce in terms of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. However, there are few evidence-based models that are tested and can have significant effects in this re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,765 Views
26 Pages

The concept of evaluation gaps captures potential discrepancies between what researchers value about their research, in particular research quality, and what metrics measure. The existence of evaluation gaps can give rise to questions about the relat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,836 Views
24 Pages

Research Progress of Three-Dimensional Engineering Geological Evaluation Modeling

  • Gaoang Wei,
  • Bowen Zheng,
  • Jinyu Dong,
  • Yue Yang,
  • Guoxiang Yang,
  • Shuaihua Song,
  • Songfeng Guo and
  • Shengwen Qi

21 April 2025

With the rapid development of China’s economic construction and the increasing scale of the project, more and more complex engineering geological problems have put forward higher requirements for engineering geological researchers. As the core...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,972 Views
25 Pages

4 June 2022

Urban mobility systems are facing far-reaching structural transformations: There is the challenge of managing the growing volume of traffic and the associated environmental and social problems. On the one hand, novel micro-mobility services such as l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,457 Views
21 Pages

Research on an Evaluation Method of Snowdrift Hazard for Railway Subgrades

  • Shumao Qiu,
  • Mingzhou Bai,
  • Daming Lin,
  • Yufang Zhang,
  • Haoying Xia,
  • Jiawei Fan,
  • Wenjiao Zhou and
  • Zhenyu Tang

17 August 2024

The objective of this study is to investigate the potential risks posed by snowdrifts, a prevalent cause of natural disasters in northern China, on railway subgrades, and to assess their risk level. As a wind-driven process of snow migration and rede...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,656 Views
16 Pages

Early Implementation and Evaluation of StepUp for Dementia Research: An Australia-Wide Dementia Research Participation and Public Engagement Platform

  • Yun-Hee Jeon,
  • Mirim Shin,
  • Adam Smith,
  • Elizabeth Beattie,
  • Henry Brodaty,
  • Dennis Frost,
  • Anthony Hobbs,
  • Piers Kotting,
  • Glenys Petrie and
  • Donna Waters
  • + 3 authors

Recruiting participants for dementia research takes time. For those who are interested, opportunities to participate can be ad hoc. Delays in finding the right participants can result in studies taking longer to deliver, often requiring funding exten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,035 Views
18 Pages

A Decision Support System for Public Funding of Experimental Development in Energy Research

  • Simon Hirzel,
  • Tim Hettesheimer,
  • Peter Viebahn and
  • Manfred Fischedick

26 May 2018

New energy technologies may fail to make the transition to the market once research funding has ended due to a lack of private engagement to conclude their development. Extending public funding to cover such experimental developments could be one way...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,516 Views
22 Pages

24 November 2019

As a developing country with insufficient water resources, China’s water environment management and performance evaluation have important research value. The three provinces (Henan, Hubei, and Hunan) in central China with typical significance i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
1,473 Views
7 Pages

Establishing a Multicentre Clinical Research Network: Lessons Learned

  • N.A. Hagen,
  • C.R. Stiles,
  • P.D. Biondo,
  • G.G. Cummings,
  • R.L. Fainsinger,
  • D.E. Moulin,
  • J.L. Pereira and
  • R. Spice

1 October 2011

Background: Within many health care disciplines, research networks have emerged to connect researchers who are physically separated, to facilitate sharing of expertise and resources, and to exchange valuable skills. A multicentre research network com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,330 Views
11 Pages

27 February 2021

In most of the world’s countries, scholarship evaluation for tenure and promotion continues to rely on conventional criteria of publications in journals of high impact factor and achievements in securing research funds. Continuing to hire and promote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
707 Views
16 Pages

Rethinking Machine Learning Evaluation in Waste Management Research

  • Paul Mullane,
  • Colin Fitzpatrick and
  • Eoin Martino Grua

29 November 2025

Reliable model evaluation is critical in waste management research, where machine learning is increasingly used to inform policy, circular economy strategies and progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, common evalu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,067 Views
37 Pages

There is a growing need for comprehensive and transparent frameworks in bibliometric evaluation that support fairer assessments and capture the multifaceted nature of research performance. This study proposes a novel methodology for identifying top-p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,050 Views
17 Pages

4 March 2022

This study aimed to ascertain the research status of complexity issues in building information modeling (BIM) diffusion and identify future research directions in this field. A total of 366 relevant journal articles were holistically evaluated. The v...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
689 Views
18 Pages

25 February 2025

Through on-site research and the measurement of typical airport terminals, first-hand data are obtained. Based on actual operation data verification, the comprehensive use of measured data, and refined simulation research methods, we summarize the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,613 Views
13 Pages

7 March 2023

Chinese tea has a long history, and the development level of tea mechanization in this country is in the leading position internationally. Equipment for the tea processing craft is one of the most widely used types in China; indispensable technology...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,744 Views
17 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Reverse Logistics: Opportunities for Future Research

  • Derek Voigt,
  • Nelson Casarotto Filho,
  • Mayara Atherino Macedo,
  • Thais Guerra Braga and
  • Rodrigo Ulisses Garbin da Rocha

26 September 2019

This study aimed to analyze the characteristics of the scientific research that approaches Reverse Logistics (RL) from the perspective of Performance Evaluation (PE). For this purpose, ProKnow-C was used to select 21 articles to compose a Bibliograph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,685 Views
22 Pages

20 November 2021

Soil remediation technology has achieved good results at present, but evaluation research on the soil remediation effect is relatively lacking. In the field of soil remediation effect evaluation, there are problems such as unscientific and imperfect...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,164 Views
22 Pages

Research Progress of Bonding Agents and Their Performance Evaluation Methods

  • Junyan Gan,
  • Xue Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Rui Hang,
  • Wuxi Xie,
  • Yunfei Liu,
  • Wen Luo and
  • Yu Chen

6 January 2022

Bonding agents are an important type of additive that are used to increase the interfacial interaction in propellants. A suitable bonding agent can prevent the dewetting between the oxidant and binder, and thus effectively improve the mechanical prop...

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