Practice and Challenge of International Peer Review: A Case Study of Research Evaluation of CAS Centers for Excellence
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Article Category: Research Paper
Published Online: Aug 30, 2019
Page range: 22 - 34
Received: Jun 09, 2019
Accepted: Aug 09, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2019-0013
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Basic feature of CAS four categories of research institutes.
| Centers for Excellence | Innovation Institutes | Centers for Mega-science | Featured Institutes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research | • Focus on original | • Focus on economic development and | • Focus on building and running | • Focus on serving for sustainable |
| orientation | innovation of science and | national security | large-scale science and | development of society |
| technology | technology innovation platforms | |||
| Research | • Basic and frontier sciences | • Important foundation and technological | • Design, construct and operate | • Indispensable research areas for |
| areas | • Orientation towards major | direction for promoting industrial | international advanced | sustainable social development |
| scientific problems. | upgrading, breaking through bottlenecks, | large-scale scientific devices | • Interdisciplinary study of natural | |
| influencing or restricting national | • Comprehensive interdisciplinary | science and social science | ||
| security | and cutting-edge sciences relying | • long-term observation and | ||
| • High risk technological frontier | on large scientific devices | continuous accumulation related | ||
| directions | basic research work | |||
| Team | • Internationally or | • Strategic scientists, academic and | • High level teams in scheme | • Internationally recognized scientific |
| composition | domestically recognized | technological leaders with broad vision | design, technology research and | and technology experts who also |
| leading scientists | and good grasp of technological | development and engineering | understand national demand | |
| • High-level academic | direction and organizational tackling key | organizations | • An integrated research team with | |
| leaders and their support | problems | • Professional technical support | multiple subject background | |
| teams | • A well-structured support team | and operational service team | ||
| • A small group of excellent | consisting of scientific researchers, | • International and domestic | ||
| researchers | engineers and industrialized personnel | multidisciplinary research teams | ||
| Forms of | • Solve major scientific | • Breakthrough key technologies | • Technological services with open | • Providing scientific suggestions and |
| research | problems | • Provide systematic integration solutions | sharing, efficient operation and | constructive solutions for |
| output | • Open up new research | • Develop new technologies and standards | satisfactory users | macro-decision-making and |
| areas | • Incubation of new industries and | • Major breakthroughs in science | sustainable development | |
| • Invent significant | enterprises | and technology relying on the | • Forming new theories, methods, | |
| scientific instruments | • Technological radiation produces | formation of large scientific | standards and tools in this field | |
| • Break new ground in key | significant economic benefits | equipment | • Accumulate basic data and provide | |
| experimental methods | • Important original innovation for | • Creating first-class scientists and | an open and shared analytical | |
| • Train first-class scientists | national major strategic needs | engineers | technology platform | |
| • Putt forward significant | • Create first-class strategic science and | • Propose suggestions on planning | • Creating first-class scientists, | |
| prospective suggestions | technology experts and engineering | of large-scale scientific | strategic science and technology | |
| technology specialists | equipment adopted by the state | experts and technical specialists | ||
| Research | • Periodic evaluation every 5 years, annual monitoring and mid-term diagnosis assessment | |||
| evaluation | • Focus on research quality | • Focus on goal accomplishment and | • Focus on the achievement of | • Focus on quality, benefit and impact |
| system | and impact | adoption | construction objectives, | • Based on peers' and users' opinions |
| • International peer review | • Based on peers' and users' opinions, and | operational efficiency and major | ||
| market feedback | outputs | |||
| • Based on peers' and users' | ||||
| opinions | ||||