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From the local and state to the federal level, society today demands greater accountability from researchers. Whether in the sciences or the humanities, knowledge production today must simultaneously be:
• Theoretically rigorous • Policy relevant |
• Culturally significant • Economically sustainable |
CSID research aims to achieve all of these goals.
CSID's Accountability Project is the recursive moment within our work, where we trace CSID’s own results in achieving each goal. It is where we pursue the 'philosophy of metrics' – an effort to identify the underlying assumptions of accountability. We examine:
- Current methods for assessing research impact (for instance, peer review and bibliometrics)
- Different means for assessing the broader societal impacts of research
- Best practices for metrics of inter- and transdisciplinary research
To learn more about our work in these areas, see