Running the REF on a rainy Sunday Afternoon: The relative merits of peer review vs metrics in national research evaluations HarzingAnne-Wil 2018 Presentation given at the <a href="http://sti2018.cwts.nl/" target="_blank">Science and Technology Indicators conference</a> in Leiden 2018. Entitled "Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Can we exchange peer review for metrics?" it makes the case that we should let metrics do the "heavy lifting" in the UK REF [Research Excellence Framework]. I show that a university-level ranking based on metrics (Microsoft Academic citations for all papers published with the university's affiliation between 2008-2013) correlates at 0.97 with the The REF power rating taken from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/dec/18/university-research-excellence-framework-2014-full-rankings" target="_blank">Research Fortnight’s calculation</a>. Using metrics to distribute research-related funding would free up a staggering amount of time and money and would allow us to come up with more creative and meaningful ways to build in a research quality component in the REF.<br>