“This two-day, in-person forum hosted by the University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech University, and the International Network of Research Management Societies’ Research Evaluation Group brings together a broad range of experts and practitioners to work toward better, fairer, and more meaningful research evaluation. While traditional evaluation focuses on citation counts or grant income-based metrics, relying on such limited indicators can negatively affect the research ecosystem at higher education institutions by distorting the academic incentive structure, creating unsustainable pressures on researchers, reducing the diversity of the research mission, and potentially compromising research integrity. This forum will present the SCOPE framework as a better way to evaluate research impact and quality. Librarians, researchers, bibliometricians, and research managers will convene to provide formal training in responsible evaluation methods and explore how to use value-led evaluation for strategic research management. To ensure sustainability and a community of practice beyond the project period, the forum will be followed by four virtual sessions throughout the year inviting participants to share how they are piloting the responsible evaluation methods framework at their institutions.”

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