A comment on “Scientometrics in a changing research landscape”

Abstract

In their Science & Society article ‘Scientometrics in a changing research landscape' [1] Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff state that ‘the new UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) puts more emphasis on bibliometric data and less on peer review than did its predecessor’. Having overseen the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014 (http://www.ref.ac.uk/) for the …