Quality not quantity – Measuring the impact of research

By Warwick Anderson, The Conversation. Few things are changing faster in the research world than publishing. The ‘open access’ movement recognises that publicly funded research should be freely available to everyone. Now more than a decade old, open access is changing where researchers publish and, more importantly, how the wider world accesses – and assesses – their work.
As Australia’s medical research funding body, we at the National Health and Medical Research Council, or NHMRC, mandate that all publications from research we’ve funded be openly accessible. More...