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This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for research performance meet strong opposition in the humanities. This volume combines the presentation of state-of-the-art projects on research assessments in the humanities by humanities scholars themselves with a description of the evaluation of humanities research in practice presented by research fun...
This text examines the origin and effects of publication metrics that are used to measure academic productivity around the world.
This insightful book explores the answers to two ongoing debates: how should societal impact of research be measured and to what extent national research evaluation systems are fit for purpose?
Legal academics in Europe publish a wide variety of materials including books, articles and essays, in an assortment of languages, and for a diverse readership. As a consequence, this variety can pose a problem for the evaluation of academic legal research. This thought-provoking book offers an overview of the legal and policy norms, methods and criteria applied in the evaluation of academic legal research, from a comparative perspective.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current developments, issues and good practices regarding assessment in social science research. It pays particular attention to the challenges in evaluation policies in the social sciences, as well as to the specificities of publishing in the area.
Social science from Western countries continues to have the greatest global influence, but the field is expanding rapidly in Asia and Latin America, particularly in China and Brazil. In sub-Saharan Africa, social scientists from South Africa, Nigeria andKenya produce 75% of academic publications. In South Asia, barring some centres of excellence in India, social sciences as a whole have low priority. These are a few of the findings from World Social Science Report, 2010: Knowledge divides. Produced by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and co-published with UNESCO, the Report is the first comprehensive overview of the field in over a decade. Hundreds of social scientists from ar...
La actividad profesional de Adelaida Román, desarrollada a lo largo de muchos años y con distintas responsabilidades dentro del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, se relaciona ineludiblemente con muchos ámbitos de la Documentación Científica especializada en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, y más concretamente con la creación de bases de datos bibliográficas, la elaboración de lenguajes documentales, la evaluación de revistas científicas. También es indispensable aludir a su apuesta decidida y constante por las redes de cooperación y de asociacionismo.
»Es ist nichts mehr, wie es war.« - Unmittelbar nach den Terroranschlägen des 11. September 2001 war im öffentlichen Diskurs die Rede von einer einzigartigen Zäsur in der Weltgeschichte. Doch wie einzigartig war das Ereignis wirklich? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes vergleichen die Rezeption verschiedener historischer Einschnitte in Literatur, Presse, Theorie und Film - beginnend mit dem Erdbeben in Lissabon von 1755 bis hin zum Attentat auf die Madrider U-Bahn im Jahre 2004 - mit den medialen und kulturellen Verarbeitungen von 9/11 und arbeiten so Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede heraus.
La vitalità di un settore scientifico è normalmente attestata dalla ricaduta che le ricerche e le pubblicazioni hanno sulla comunità degli studiosi che la praticano e, quindi, sullo sviluppo della disciplina stessa e delle sue metodologie. Il grado di ‘salute’ di un campo di studio, nonché la sua capacità di uscire fuori dalla propria nicchia di studiosi e di vedere riconosciuta la propria validità, si valuta, infatti, analizzando se e in quale misura i lavori vengano letti, commentati, citati da studiosi di altri contesti geografici e/o di altri rami scientifici. Nel volume viene descritta una ricerca incentrata sull’analisi del livello di internazionalizzazione e di vitalità degli studi italiani nelle discipline del libro e del documento, condotta attraverso una serie di indagini parallele di tipo bibliometrico (interrogazione dei database citazionali, ricerche in Google scholar, applicazione di metriche alternative, library catalog analysis).