Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management

The Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management was set up in April 2014 to investigate the current and potential future roles that quantitative indicators can play in the assessment and management of research. Its report, ‘The Metric Tide’, was published in July 2015 and is available below.

Executive summary and recommendations only Supplementary Report I: Literature Review Supplementary Report II: Correlation analysis of REF2014 scores and metrics