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Received: 24 February 2022

Accepted: 7 September 2022

First Online: 24 September 2022

Declarations

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: The interviews and focus groups, as well as the survey were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences of Hasselt University (protocol number CME2016/679 for the interviews and focus group study, and protocol number CME2019/035 for the survey study). All participants to the interviews and focus groups provided written consent for participation.

: Not applicable.

: The authors have no formal competing interests with the information contained in this article. NAB is currently working on several projects concerning research assessment through her employments as policy advisor at Research England (UKRI) and as postdoctoral researcher at Amsterdam University Medical Centers in which numerous research integrity activities and projects are taking place, but she did not identify a conflicting interest between this short Research Note and her employment. NAB and WP continue to work on the topic of research assessments at Hasselt University and therefore have an intellectual interest in the topic and in new developments in academia, but they have no formal conflicting interests related to this short Research Note.