Keep discussing evaluation – A personal and appreciative reflection

Abstract

In an attempt to summarize and draw preliminary conclusions from the many fine responses to my article ‘Stop evaluating science’, this short piece brings some additional reflections on the topic with the primary intent not to close the debate but to keep it open. Discussing, in turn, three main topics of the responses and an additional topic that arguably is of particular interest, the article’s intent is to celebrate the great insights and contributions that surfaced in the debate so far by adding some notes on how to take the issue further in future scholarly inquiry and discussion.