New TI Fellowship Charter, 2022-2026
After consultation with the scientific council and approval of the Board, TI has updated the fellow charter describing the features of the fellow program.
Similar to the previous charter, the main goal is to ensure that TI research fellows have an excellent international reputation. We welcome our newly appointed candidate fellows, research fellows and honorary fellows. We hope that the main benefits of our research community, such as a discussion paper series, a vibrant set of seminar series, the ability to host research visitors and organize conferences and physical locations for research master students, PhDs, and fellows to meet and discuss research, will continue to enrich and improve our scientific quality.
The main change compared to the earlier fellowship charter, is that research quality of research fellows is assessed annually based on a five-year moving window, and that a fellow appointment is then granted for the following three years. Further small changes are made to give the Board more discretion to assess other indicators of research quality, such as citations, and also to smooth the work/life impact of Covid-19 on researchers.
In practice, the change will result in a smoother pattern in the number of fellows over the years and avoid the sharp drop-off at the boundaries of the Fellowship Charter periods. As an example, in the assessment round of 2021, researchers meeting the criteria in the 2017-21 window will be granted an appointment through 2024. If the researcher did not meet the criteria, they would still remain a fellow through 2022 if they had met the criteria in the 2015-19 or 2016-20 windows.
The assessment of publications is tweaked. We have expanded the TI-journal list of Economics and Business-Finance journals to include some key journals in marketing and data science. Further, we use a five-year backward moving average of journal impact factors to assess quality of an article in a particular year. As in the earlier charter, the majority of publication points should derive from articles published in journals of the TI journal list.
Fellows and researchers seeking a fellow appointment should make sure that their recent research output is visible in their university research repository (Pure is now used at all three partner universities.). Further, to promote open science, we require all fellows to supply TI with their OrcID and to set the preferences of their OrcID account to allow visibility of their research output.