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Editorial
. 2013 Oct;11(10):e1001677.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001677. Epub 2013 Oct 8.

Expert failure: re-evaluating research assessment

Jonathan A Eisen  1 , Catriona J Maccallum, Cameron Neylon
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Editorial

Expert failure: re-evaluating research assessment

Jonathan A Eisen et al. PLoS Biol. 2013 Oct.

Abstract

It is unlikely that there is any single objective measure of merit, so research assessment therefore requires new multivariate metrics that reflect the context of research, regardless of discipline.

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Conflict of interest statement

Jonathan Eisen is chair of the PLOS Biology Advisory Board. Catriona MacCallum and Cameron Neylon are employees of PLOS whose salary is supported by PLOS income derived from the publication of open-access papers.

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