Quantitative Assessments of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences A Summary of the Lessons Learned (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Although reliance on the peer review process has worked well and has produced effective reports, the Commission was interested in investigating the possibility of more systematically assaying the capacity of a field to sustain and evolve a vigorous program of research. In initiating this study, the Commission's hypothesis was that the significantly increased use of quantitative analysis of the health or status of a discipline might be expected to provide a firmer foundation for discipline assessments performed by its own and other groups.
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The Commission's initial assumption was that each of these areas could be tracked and evaluated using data from a variety of government and nongovernment databases, thereby enabling creation of a statistical portrait of any given field, which could then be combined with a more qualitative, peer review approach to assess a field's status. To test this assumption and its five proposed metrics, the Commission established three panels: the Mathematics Assessment Panel, the Astronomy Assessment Panel, and the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO)
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