A tricky one. Can you measure the impact factor of art? Can you assess the quality of an art project? Using – what?

I’m not even going to try to answer these complicated questions in this post, but here are some interesting links I have visited today pertaining to the issue:

• Thelwall, M; Delgado, MM. 2015. Arts and humanities research evaluation: no metrics please, just data (Queen Mary Research Online Archive)
• HEFCE metrics workshop: metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the arts and humanities. (Friday 16 January 2015, 1030 to 1630, Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick)
• Arts & Humanities Research Council. 2015. Understanding Your Project: A Guide to Self Evaluation
• Audience Appreciation Index (Wikipedia article)
• REF 2014 Research Excellence Framework
• Arvidsson, Sofia; Süld, Karin. 2012. Konstnärlig forskning i öppna digitala arkiv. Pp. 31-43. In: Årsbok KFoU / Vetenskapsrådet
• Bibliometrisk indikator som underlag för medelsfördelning. 2010. Vetenskapsrådet
• Mey, Kerstin. It takes two to tango: Artistic research and impact assessment under the new Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the UK. 11th ELIA Biennial Conference Nantes 2010
• Universitetsbiblioteket vid Luleå tekniska universitet. Guides: Bibliometrics, ranking and citation searching.
• Universitetsbiblioteket vid Luleå tekniska universitet. Guides: What is altimetrics?
• CoRe (Connecting Repositories). The mission of CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
• Garrett, Leigh; Gramstadt, Marie Therese. KAPTUR: exploring the nature of visual arts research data and its effective management. In: Digital Humanities Conference, 6 – 8 September 2012, Sheffield. (Unpublished)
• UCA Repository (University for the Creative Arts). Search results “KAPTUR”
• Gray,  Stephen. 2011. Project CAiRO Curating Artistic Research Output. JISC
• Haapalainen, Marja. 2014. Projekt Vidareutveckling av SwePub