Evaluation of scientific books' publishers in social sciences and humanities: Results of a survey

Giménez-Toledo, Elea; Artigas, Carlos Miguel Tejada; Mañana-Rodríguez, Jorge

doi:10.1093/reseval/rvs036

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“…The projects presented in this article show furthermore that if the assessment procedures adequately reflect the SSH research practices, scholars are ready to collaborate (for example, Giménez-Toledo et al, 2013;Ochsner et al, 2014) and to accept more easily research assessment, like in the Norwegian or German case (Aagaard et al, 2015;Sivertsen, 2016;Stierstorfer and Schneck, 2016). Full-coverage databases including all relevant document types are of value for scholarly work (Gogolin, 2016;Sandor and Vorndran, 2014a, b) and increase the visibility of humanities research production (Aagaard et al, 2015).…”

Section: Bottom-up Initiatives At the European Levelmentioning

confidence: 92%

The future of research assessment in the humanities: bottom-up assessment procedures

2017

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Research assessment in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) is delicate. Assessment procedures meet strong criticisms from SSH scholars and bibliometric research shows that the methods that are usually applied are ill-adapted to SSH research. While until recently research on assessment in the SSH disciplines focused on the deficiencies of the current assessment methods, we present some European initiatives that take a bottom-up approach. They focus on research practices in SSH and reflect on how to assess SSH research with its own approaches instead of applying and adjusting the methods developed for and in the natural and life sciences. This is an important development because we can learn from previous evaluation exercises that whenever scholars felt that assessment procedures were imposed in a top-down manner without proper adjustments to SSH research, it resulted in boycotts or resistance. Applying adequate evaluation methods not only helps foster a better valorization of SSH research within the research community, among policymakers and colleagues from the natural sciences, but it will also help society to better understand SSH's contributions to solving major societal challenges. Therefore, taking the time to encourage bottom-up evaluation initiatives should result in being able to better confront the main challenges facing modern society. This article is published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment.

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Section: Bottom-up Initiatives At the European Levelmentioning

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The future of research assessment in the humanities: bottom-up assessment procedures

2017

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“…The results are summarized in an indicator: ICEE (quality indicator for publishers according to experts opinion). This indicator serves as a ranking item, both at the general level and specifically for each discipline, since the assigned weights are related to each discipline's distribution of scores (Giménez-Toledo, Tejada-Artigas & Mañana Rodríguez, 2013). The weighting procedure involves no arbitrary intervention from its designers and permits certain normalization per discipline.…”

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Taking scholarly books into account: current developments in five European countries

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“…As pesquisas apresentadas em congressos podem ser ou não posteriormente publicadas em um canal formal de comunicação científica (Meadows, 1999). Porém, os resultados da pesquisa de algumas áreas, bem como o espaço necessário para informar o acúmulo de conhecimento e descrever todas as variáveis nem sempre são adequados para a apresentação em artigos ou conferências (Giménez-Toledo, Tejada-Artigas, & Mañana-Rodríguez, 2013), ainda sendo o livro o meio ideal.…”

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Evaluation of scientific books' publishers in social sciences and humanities: Results of a survey

Cited by 61 publications

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The future of research assessment in the humanities: bottom-up assessment procedures

The future of research assessment in the humanities: bottom-up assessment procedures

Taking scholarly books into account: current developments in five European countries

Comunicação científica em livros e capítulos na área de educação e afins

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