Hugo Besemer, Wageningen University Research İlkay Holt, FAO of the UN Discussion Group on Metrics and Indicators in Agricultural Sciences IGAD Pre-Meeting @RDA Plenary 5 April 2017, Barcelona Hugo Besemer, Wageningen University Research İlkay Holt, FAO of the UN

Participants Hugo Besemer, FAO of the UN- Wageningen University, The Netherlands İlkay Holt, FAO of the UN, UK Thomas Ingraham, F1000Research, UK Gert-Jan Stads, ASTI/IFPRI Marie-Claude Deboin, CIRAD, France Fernanda Peset, UPV, Spain Antonia Ferrer, UPV, Spain Ismael Rafols, Ingenio- CSIC-UPV, Spain Elizabeth Zeitler, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, United States Xuefu Zhang, CAAS, China Martin Müller, IITA, Nigeria Sufiet Erlita, CIFOR, Indonesia Cristóbal Urbano, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent, INGENIO-UPV, Spain

Process Societal impact indicators Altmetrics Citation metrics

Societal impact Challenges Time frame Granularity at national, institutional, project level Goal replacement Best thing to do is to measure interactions rather than outcomes Better not to use indicators than using the wrong indicators Interactions important in the sense of networking on similar groups, communities

Altmetrics Concentrating on traditional scholarly publications Qualitative more important than quantitative Use other social media data to show interactions

Citation based metrics “Useless in Africa” Visibility is a problem Bias against interdisciplinarity Bias against smaller commodities List of other outputs of agricultural research than articles Data re-used but not cited

Output of the group discussion White paper on responsible use of indicators in agricultural sciences Mailing list as a sharing platform