Evaluations of CAS Institutes

The Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) is currently preparing another round of its periodic evaluation, which will take place during 2025. We aim to acquire detailed and independent information about our institutes and their research teams in collaboration with highly renowned experts and set it in the international context.

52 research institutes and over 400 of their research teams will be evaluated, covering scientific fields from Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Physics, Earth Sciences, Life and Chemical Sciences to Humanities and Social Sciences.

The international evaluation of CAS institutes is conducted as a qualitative informed peer-review that takes into account both the selected outputs and the activities of each institute and its teams. The evaluation will be newly carried out by 52 international commissions; each institute will have one commission established for both phases of the evaluation. Outcomes and recommendations for each evaluated institute and team will be summarised by the commissions in the form of final reports. These will form the basis for effective decision-making and management of the CAS and its institutes in the next 5 years.

Specific evaluation methodology will be applied to the research-infrastructure focused institutes – namely Centre of Administrations and Operations of the CAS and Library of the CAS.

The evaluation is supervised by the Coordination Board.

For any support or questions related to the evaluation please do not hesitate to contact Science Support Division of the CAS Head Office at: evaluation@kav.cas.cz.

General documents:

• Methodology of evaluation of research and professional activities of research-oriented institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2015–2019
• Report on the evaluation of the research and professional activities of CAS Institutes for 2015–2019

Documents for the individual institutes of CAS:

Components of the package for each individual institute of the CAS are: (1) Research reports (Description of the main research directions investigated by the institute and Research activity and characterisation of the main scientific results of the teams), (2) Bibliometric parameters of all the outputs including those evaluated in Phase I, (3) Team quality profiles – (Reports – Phase I), (4) Final report, (5) Statement from the director of the institute on the final report.

Astronomical Institute of the CAS, v. v. i.
Biology Centre of the CAS, v. v. i.
Economics Institute of the CAS, v. v. i.
Global Change Research Institute of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute for Contemporary History of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Brno, v. v. i.
Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, v. v. i.
Institute of Art History of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Biophysics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Biotechnology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Botany of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Computer Science of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Experimental Medicine of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Geology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Geonics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Geophysics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of History of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Hydrodynamics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Mathematics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Philosophy of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Physics of Materials of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Physics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Physiology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Psychology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Slavonic Studies of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Sociology of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of State and Law of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of the Czech Language of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS, v. v. i.
Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the CAS, v. v. i.
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS, v. v. i.
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, v. v. i.
Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, v. v. i.
Oriental Institute of the CAS, v. v. i.

Specific evaluation methodology was applied to the research-infrastructure institutes – namely the Centre of Administrations and Operations of the CAS and the Library of the CAS. The results of the evaluation are available in Czech here.

Note: Non-public data in the documents were replaced by the letters „XXX“.

For any support or questions related to the evaluation please do not hesitate to contact Science Support Division of the CAS Head Office at: evaluation@kav.cas.cz.