Publications

The general framework of RESQUE is described in:

[1] Schönbrodt, F. D., Gärtner, A., Frank, M., Gollwitzer, M., Ihle, M., Mischkowski, D., Phan, L. V., Schmitt, M., Scheel, A. M., Schubert, A.-L., Steinberg, U., & Leising, D. (2025). Responsible Research Assessment I: Implementing DORA and CoARA for hiring and promotion in psychology. Meta-Psychology, 9. https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4601

The specific RESQUE rating schemes are described in:

[2] Gärtner, A., Leising, D., Freyer, N., Musfeld, P., Lange, J., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2025). Responsible Research Assessment II: A specific proposal for hiring and promotion in psychology. Meta-Psychology, 9. https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4604

and

[3] Leising, D., Gärtner, A., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2025). Responsible Research Assessment (Parts I and II): Responses to the Commentaries. Meta-Psychology, 9. https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4603

and

[4] Gärtner, A., Leising, D., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2023). Empfehlungen zur Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Leistungen bei Berufungsverfahren in der Psychologie. Psychologische Rundschau, 74(3), 166–174. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000630

A short overview can be found in:

[5] Gärtner, A., Leising, D., Schönbrodt, F. D. (2024). Towards responsible research assessment: How to reward research quality. PLoS Biology 22(2):e3002553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002553

(Note: These publications refer to version 0.2 of the RESQUE scheme. As the scheme is continuously updated based on community feedback and ongoing evaluation studies, some differences from the current version may occur.)