How can research agencies which are integrated into the hierarchical state apparatus provide credible expertise for … policy-decisions? In the case of governmental research agencies (GRAs) in Germany, this does not seem to pose a major problem …

The academic discussion about massive public evaluations of state funded research organizations has empha-sized a … negative impact on the quantity and quality of research. But apart from serving as a legitimation of public funding, little is … the evaluations of "their" research organizations and the results. The find-ings are based on case studies including …

Interdisziplinäre Forschung (kurz: ID) wird zunehmend durch das Bereitstellen von Fördergeldern und das Einrichten von … gegenüber: Karrierewege, Veröffentlichungspraktiken und die Bewertung von Forschung werden primär von monodisziplinären …Interdisciplinary research is increasingly supported by numerous structures and instruments within the German science …