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Research Assessment in the Humanities : Towards Criteria and Procedures.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ochsner, Michael.
Other Authors: Hug, Sven E., Daniel, Hans-Dieter.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • About the Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Research Assessment in the Humanities: Introduction
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Structure of the Book
  • 3 Synopsis, Outlook and Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part I Setting Sail into Stormy Waters
  • The `Mesurer les Performances de la Recherche' Project of the Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) and Its Further Development
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Making a Variety of Research Visible
  • 2.1 What Should We Evaluate in Research?
  • 2.2 For What Purpose Should We Evaluate Research?
  • 2.3 How Should We Evaluate Research?
  • 2.4 Evaluation, Quality and Mission
  • 3 The `Mesurer les Performances de la Recherche' Project
  • 4 The `Performances de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines et Sociales' Programme
  • References
  • Yes We Should
  • Research Assessment in the Humanities
  • References
  • How Quality Is Recognized by Peer Review Panels: The Case of the Humanities
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Role of Informal Rules
  • 3 The Impact of Evaluation Settings on Rules
  • 4 Defining Originality
  • 5 What Is an Original Approach?
  • 6 Comparing the Humanities, History and the Social Sciences
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Humanities Scholars' Conceptions of Research Quality
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Framework
  • 2.1 The Four Main Reservations About Tools and Procedures for Research Evaluation
  • 2.2 The Four Pillars of Our Framework to Develop Sustainable Quality Criteria
  • 2.3 The Implementation of the Framework: The Design of the Project `Developing and Testing Quality Criteria for Research in the Humanities'
  • 3 Notions of Quality: The Repertory Grid Interviews
  • 4 Consensual Quality Criteria: The Delphi Survey
  • 5 Discussion: Notions of Quality at the Base of Assessment
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References.
  • Part II The Current State of Quality-Based Publication Rankings and Publication Databases
  • The ESF Scoping Project `Towards a Bibliometric Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities'
  • References
  • Publication-Based Funding: The Norwegian Model
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Component A: Delimitation and Collection of Data
  • 3 Component B: Comparable Measurement
  • 4 Component C: Incentives and Funding
  • 5 Evaluations of Effects and Experiences
  • 6 Discussion: The Norwegian Model from the Perspective of the Humanities
  • References
  • Assessment of Journal &amp
  • Book Publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Spain
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities in Spain
  • 3 Spanish Social Sciences and Humanities Journals' Indicators
  • 4 Book Publishers Assessment
  • 5 Publisher's Prestige
  • 5.1 Scholarly Publishers Indicators
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI): An Experiment
  • 1 General Outline: The EERQI Project
  • 1.1 Motivation
  • 1.2 The EERQI-Project
  • 2 What EERQI Achieved
  • 3 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III Bibliometrics in the Humanities
  • Beyond Coverage: Toward a Bibliometrics for the Humanities
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Humanities
  • 2 Bibliometric on the Humanities: A Short Recapitulation
  • 2.1 Publication Patterns
  • 2.2 Citing of Sources
  • 2.3 The Language and Age of Cited Sources
  • 3 In Pursuit of a Bibliometric for the Humanities
  • 3.1 Book Citation Index
  • 3.2 Non-source Items
  • 3.3 Google Scholar, Google Book Search
  • 3.4 Ad Hoc Databases
  • 3.5 Library Catalogues
  • 3.6 Book Reviews
  • 3.7 Counting and Weighing Publications
  • 3.8 Altmetric Approaches
  • 4 Intellectual Organization of Research Fields and Its Bibliometric Consequences
  • 4.1 Fragmented and Rural Research Fields.
  • 4.2 Referencing Practices and Citation Patterns
  • 5 Conclusions
  • 5.1 Challenges
  • References
  • Quotation Statistics and Culture in Literature and in Other Humanist Disciplines
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Quotation Culture in the Humanities
  • 2.1 Characteristics of Quotations in the Humanities
  • 2.2 Disapproval of Bibliometrics and of `Quantities' Per se
  • 2.3 The European Reference Index for the Humanities
  • 2.4 Rigor and Quotations
  • 3 Low Quotation Frequencies in Literature
  • 3.1 Materials and Methods
  • 3.2 Results
  • 3.3 Possible Objections
  • 4 Discussion
  • References
  • Part IV Evaluation of Research in the Humanities in Practice
  • Peer Review in the Social Sciences and Humanities at the European Level: The Experiences of the European Research Council
  • 1 The European Research Council's Mission
  • 1.1 How Does the ERC Work?
  • 1.2 European Added Value
  • 2 Why Social Sciences and Humanities?
  • 2.1 An Inclusive Approach
  • 2.2 ERC Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • 3 What Are the Results?
  • 4 Outlook
  • References
  • The Four `I's: Quality Indicators for the Humanities
  • 1 Ranking Fever in Germany
  • 2 The Reaction of the Humanities to the Ranking Fever
  • 3 Quantity Instead of Quality: Current Methods of `Quality Assessment'
  • 4 Quality Assessment within a Discipline: The Evaluation Culture in the Humanities
  • 5 What Is Quality in the Humanities? Looking Back
  • 6 The Critical Self-image of the Humanities
  • 7 Quality Indicators: The Four `I's
  • 8 Closing Remarks
  • References
  • Bottom Up from the Bottom: A New Outlook on Research Evaluation for the SSH in France
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Need for Evaluation in the Post-`loi LRU' Period
  • 2.1 Human Resources
  • 2.2 Funding
  • 2.3 The National Grant System
  • 3 Current Practices and Levels of Evaluation
  • 4 DisValHum and IMPRESHS Projects.
  • 5 Initial Outcomes
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part V The ‘Forschungsrating’ of the German Council of Science and Humanities. Risks and Opportunities for the Humanities: The Case of the Anglistik/Amerikanistik Pilot Study
  • Rating Research Performance in the Humanities: An Interim Report on an Initiative of the German Wissenschaftsrat
  • References
  • `21 Grams': Interdisciplinarity and the Assessment of Quality in the Humanities
  • 1 Rating Research: Who Needs It, and What Is It Good For? (by Klaus Stiersdorfer)
  • 2 `Weighing the Soul' of the Humanities (by Peter Schneck)
  • Research Rating Anglistik/Amerikanistik of the German Council of Science and Humanities
  • 1 Research Rating in English and American Studies (by Veronika Khlavna and Alfred Hornung)
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Procedural Steps
  • 1.3 Criteria
  • 1.4 Conclusion and Outlook
  • 2 Chairing the Research Rating of Anglistik/Amerikanistik (by Alfred Hornung)
  • 3 Quo Vadis Anglistik? On Rating a Disintegrating Academic Field (by Barbara Korte)
  • References
  • Research Assessment in a Philological Discipline: Criteria and Rater Reliability
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Assessing Research Quality in English Departments: Methods and Procedures
  • 3 Reliability of the Ratings
  • 3.1 Rater Reliability
  • 3.2 Rating Variation Across Different Criteria
  • 4 Rating Categories: What Do They Really Tell Us?
  • 4.1 Criteria
  • 4.2 Rating Dimensions
  • 5 Summary and Discussion
  • References.

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