Raising research output and evaluation standards in Taiwan
The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan is striving for excellence by monitoring research output of universities.
The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) is the main institution authorized to conduct university evaluation in Taiwan. Its primary mission is to establish a fully integrated university evaluation system, and its annual Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities provides objective indicator measures of both long-term and short-term research performance of institutions in Taiwan.
HEEACT’s performance rankings consider journal articles and their citations from Thomson Reuters science and social sciences citation indexes. The rankings aim to serve as a benchmark for universities in Taiwan and worldwide to map their relative position among peer institutions, and to enable each research university to track its annual progress in terms of scientific paper output.
In December 2008, HEEACT signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Thomson Reuters on collaborative efforts to support the university evaluation system and raise research output and evaluation standards in Taiwan. Under this Memorandum, Thomson Reuters will provide bibliometric expertise, databases and professional support to help the HEEACT develop methodologies for measuring research output that are in keeping with evaluation standards used by the international research community. The HEEACT will promote public awareness and exchanges with both local and international academia and research communities on critical issues and feedback, to continue to raise the higher education and research output standards in Taiwan.
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