European educational research quality indicators (EERQI): An experiment

Abstract

‘European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI)’ was a research project funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme from 2008 to 2011. The mission of this project was to develop new approaches for the evaluation of quality of educational research publications. Traditional methods of assessing quality of scholarly publications are highly depended on ranking methods according to citation frequency and journal impact factors. Both are based on methodologies that do not reflect adequate coverage of European scientific publications, namely in the social sciences and humanities. Hence, if European science or institutions are exposed to these evaluation methods, not only individual researchers and institutions are widely ignored, but also complete subject domains and language areas. The initiators of the EERQI project, as well as numerous researchers and evaluation bodies within the European Union, recognized the need to remedy the inadequacies of this situation.