Evaluation CAS 2015 – 2019

Evaluation of the Research and Professional activity of research-oriented institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2015-2019

On this page, you will find important information related to the preparation and course of the Evaluation of the Research and Professional Activity of the CAS research-orineted institutes for 2015-2019.

17. 2. 2021 ONLINE MEETINGS ITINERARY

8. 2. 2021

• Presentation from online meetings with team leaders of evaluated teams
• Meetings of commissions within II. the evaluation phase will take place exclusively by distance learning via video conferencing (the video conferencing platform will be known soon), we are waiting for a detailed schedule of individual commissions
• Unified presentation template of team leaders 
• Manual for video conferencing available soon
• Uniform background for video conferencing available soon

Application for BC and for individual teams:

3.4 Reports on the research activity of teams

1.1 Scheme of organizational structure of institute

3.1 Information on the activity of the institute

3.2 A List of grant and programme projects

3.2 B List of providers

3.3 Reasearch for practise

18. 12. 2020

The result of Phase I of the academic evaluation are available here. There are Final reports with a set of Quality Profiles of research teams, which will provide one of the inputs into Phase II, and an Overview of field-based outputs. Three sets of documents are available:

1. Bibliometric reports for individual evaluated teams

It contains a bibliometric overview for each of the seventeen evaluated teams. Each report contains information about total number of outputs, number of evaluated outputs, FTE of the team, qualify profile of outputs by journal ranking, quality profile of outputs by intensity of citations, output statistics according to the type of collaboration and according to field structured.

2. Reports from the first phase of evaluation for individual evaluated teams

It contains reports from the Phase I. Each report gives details about the quality profile of the team, the quality profile of the field, the average ratings of the teams in the field, the productivity of the teams in excellent outputs.

3. Reports from the first phase of evaluation for fields in relation to the workplace

Contains quality profile of individual evaluated teams in the field, quality profile of the field, average ratings of teams, productivity of teams in excellent outputs.

Evaluation criteria:

(1): Quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, scientific significance and rigour, and/or with actual or likely future ground-breaking innovative potential.
(2): Quality that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour but which falls short of the highest standards of excellence and/or highly sophisticated result with actual or likely future significant innovative potential.
(3): Quality that is recognized internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour and/or result of recognisable novelty with actual or likely future innovative potential.
(4): Quality that is recognized acceptable in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and/or result representing improvement with actual or likely future potential to contribute to society or economy.
(5): Quality that falls below the standard of scientific work.

24. 4. 2020

Instruction no. 5 (updated version of the Instruction no. 4)

The situation changed since the time Instruction no. 4 was issued (12. 3. 2020)

• The Academic deadline for submitting the complete Application is the end of November, 2020
• Internal BC deadline for your Reports is 30 June 2020
• Please send your Reports to email address: evaluationbc@bc.cas.cz as soon as you have them composed

General instruction  

There is significant freedom for you in filling the parts of your Report. The Academic Methodology does not prescribe any detailed stylistic or graphic design. We would like to leave this up to your own decision. For instance, using photographs, graphic arts and similar is certainly possible but not mandatory.  Academic headquarters stressed that the max. scope is simply the upper limit. Be as short as possible.

More instructions

• You will find them directly in the file: Report_Team_No_Name.docx
• Replace 'No' by number of your team and 'Name' by name of leader before sending it to: evaluationbc@bc.cas.cz
• Start by opening the file Report_Team_No_Name.docx and get acquainted with its scope
• Have a look at your old report (and/or get inspired by reports of previously successful teams)
• Discuss with your colleagues, divide labour, set your processes and deadlines
• Start filling the parts of your Report one by one, observing the particular instructions and using the enclosed materials
• Use Arial font, size 12, colour black, line spacing single (1,0)
• Use citations directly in the main text of your Report: (Novak et al., 2018, J. Insect Physiol. 35, 120-126)
• Do not make any list of References at the end of the main text of your Report
• Write your Reports in as brief format as possible. Do not feel obliged to reach the space limits. The evaluation committee will appreciate succinct and brief information (focusing on facts) instead of long narratives

1 Academic Methodology

2 Old Reports

3 Old Evaluations

4 BC Datasets

5 Methodology - Anex 9 - Final report