165438+at the beginning of 2020 10, it has been three years since the fourth round of discipline evaluation, and the relevant scheme of the fifth round of discipline evaluation was officially announced by the degree center of the Ministry of Education. Although there is still a period of time before the results and announcement date of the fifth round of subject evaluation, we can already expect the results of a new round of competition from the scheme and indicators of the fifth round of subject evaluation announced this time.

First, the fifth round of discipline evaluation procedures

According to the Notice on Publishing the Work Plan of the Fifth Round of Discipline Evaluation issued by the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education on June 3, 2020, the procedures for the fifth round of discipline evaluation are as follows:

1. Voluntary application: The fifth round of discipline evaluation requires the participating units to have the authorization of doctoral and master's degrees in the participating disciplines, and the overall principle is to apply for participation voluntarily;

2. Information collection \ verification: Information is generally collected according to the mode of public data collection and supplement by the participating units, and the participating information will be verified through seven measures, such as material review, logical inspection and data comparison;

3. Information Publicity \ Feedback: During the evaluation period, some evaluation information will be publicized, and the participating units will supervise each other, raise objections and verify the participating information. If in doubt, they will summarize the feedback to the relevant units and punish the counterfeiters;

4. Expert evaluation \ questionnaire survey: experts are selected according to disciplines and evaluation indicators, and questionnaires are conducted through the Internet and other aspects. Experts will evaluate each index item by item, and understand the reputation of the subject through questionnaire survey;

5. Formation and publication of results: make statistical description of the results according to the indicators and indicator weights determined by experts, classify, archive and publish the overall evaluation results, and provide and explore multi-dimensional evaluation results;

6. Diagnosis and analysis: After the results are released, information mining and analysis will be carried out in depth to provide analysis and diagnosis services for the participating disciplines and units, play a service role, provide analysis reports for the government, and play the role of a think tank.

According to the notice, the main principles of this fifth round of subject evaluation are: paying attention to moral education, highlighting diagnostic functions and strengthening classified evaluation. The notice also talked about the main measures to break the "five dimensions", which are different from the fourth round of subject evaluation in terms of measures, principles and evaluation indicators.

Note: "Five dimensions" refers to academic qualifications, professional titles, papers and awards, and the last item refers to the paper acceptance rate, citation rate, SCI and ESI.

2. What are the indicators of the fifth round of subject evaluation?

According to the contents of the Notice, the specific system framework of the fifth round of subject evaluation indicators can refer to the following table:

The announcement of the specific plan by the Degree Center of the Ministry of Education also marks the beginning of the fifth round of discipline evaluation. I believe that 202 1 will get a specific subject evaluation result. What will happen then? I think readers are looking forward to it as well as the author.