I should have linked to this earlier, but here’s the webcast and white papers from a 2-day NSF workshop on the science of science measurement. Rush Holt’s remarks on Friday are particularly good–they start at the 35-minute mark here and run for ~40 minutes. In the question and answer session, he refers to early research on the return on investments from science as “sketchy.” Methinks it was quite amusing.
Science of science measurement
