FOI2023/00865: REF2021 Scoring of Outputs
Case reference FOI2023/00865
Published 8 January 2024
Request
Request Received: 2 November 2023
I'm not sure if ref.ac.uk is meant to respond to FOI requests, but for the purposes of research into consistency of academic judgements I'd like to request the following:
For the outputs submitted in UoA 4, the independent ratings of reviewers prior to consulting with one another, and the agreed rating of reviewers. I'm only interested in the correlation of ratings and how they relate to the agreed rating. There would be no information about the identity of the outputs or the identity of the reviewers.
For example, for a set of 100 outputs with 2 reviewers, this would mean a table of 100 rows and 3 columns, the 3 columns being: rating of reviewer1, rating of reviewer2, agreed rating. From this information, nothing can be learned or inferred about individual outputs or individual reviewers.
NO information is requested about the identity of the outputs or the identity of the reviewers.
Response
Response Sent: 27 November 2023
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) do not hold any information relevant to your request.
The UoA4 independent scores were deleted from REF systems between April and early May 2022 with deletion completed before 12 May 2022.
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