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Evaluating co-creation of knowledge: from quality criteria and indicators to methods
Basic research in the natural sciences rests on a long tradition of
evaluation. However, since the San Francisco Declaration on Research
Assessment (DORA) came out in 2012, there has been intense discussion in the
natural sciences, above all amongst researchers and funding agencies in the
different fields of applied research and scientific service. This discussion
was intensified when climate services and other fields, used to make users
participate in research and development activities (co-creation), demanded
new evaluation methods appropriate to this new research mode.
This paper starts by describing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary literature
overview of indicators to evaluate co-creation of knowledge, including the
different fields of integrated knowledge production.
Then the authors harmonize the different elements of evaluation from literature in an evaluation
cascade that scales down from very general evaluation dimensions to tangible
assessment methods. They describe evaluation indicators already being
documented and include a mixture of different assessment methods for two
exemplary criteria. It is shown what can be deduced from already
existing methodology for climate services and envisaged how climate services
can further to develop their specific evaluation method