TY - JOUR ID - 3729 TI - Qualitative versus Quantitative Evaluation of Scientists' Impact: A Medical Toxicology Tale JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology JA - APJMT LA - en SN - 2322-2611 AU - Afshari, Reza AU - Monzavi, Seyed Mostafa AD - Addiction Research Centre, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Addiction Research Centre, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 3 IS - 4 SP - 134 EP - 140 KW - Comparative Effectiveness Research KW - Cost-Benefit Analysis KW - Employee Performance Appraisal KW - Journal Impact Factor KW - Social Change DO - 10.22038/apjmt.2014.3729 N2 - Evaluation of scientists working in a specific area of science is necessary, as they may strive for same limited resources, grants and academic promotions. One of the most common and accepted methods of assessing the performance and impact of a scientist is calculating the number of citations for their publications. However, such method suffer from certain shortcomings. It has become more and more obvious that evaluation of scientists should be qualitative in addition to quantitative. Moreover, the evaluation process should be pragmatic and reflective of the priorities of an institution, a country or an intended population. In this context, a scoring scale called "360-degree researcher evaluation score" is proposed in this paper. Accordingly, scientists are evaluated in 5 independent domains including (I) science development, (II) economic impact, (III) policy impact, (IV) societal impact and (V) stewardship of research. This scale is designed for evaluation of impacts resulted from research activities and thus it excludes the educational programs done by a scientist. In general, it seems necessary that the evaluation process of a scientist’s impact moves from only scintometric indices to a combination of quantitative and qualitative indices. UR - https://apjmt.mums.ac.ir/article_3729.html L1 - https://apjmt.mums.ac.ir/article_3729_0d06e1d33b7293b680330b3520103f7f.pdf ER -