Research assessment in the humanities : towards criteria and procedures / edited by Michael Ochsner, Sven E. Hug, Hans-Dieter Daniel.

Research Assessment in the Humanities: Introduction -- 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 -- How Quality Is Recognized by Peer Review Panels: The Case of the Humanities -- Humanities Scholars' Conceptions of Research Quality -- 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' -- Assessment of Journal & Book Publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Spain -- European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI): An Experiment -- Part III Bibliometrics in the Humanities -- Beyond Coverage: Toward a Bibliometrics for the Humanities -- Quotation Statistics and Culture in Literature and in Other Humanist Disciplines -- 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 -- The Four `I's: Quality Indicators for the Humanities -- Bottom Up from the Bottom: A New Outlook on Research Evaluation for the SSH in France -- 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 -- Research Rating Anglistik/Amerikanistik of the German Council of Science and Humanities -- Research Assessment in a Philological Discipline: Criteria and Rater Reliability

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. 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 funders. Bibliometric issues concerning humanities research complete the exhaustive analysis of humanities research assessment. The selection of authors is well-balanced between humanities scholars, research funders, and researchers on higher education. Hence, the edited volume succeeds in painting a comprehensive picture of research evaluation in the humanities. This book is valuable to university and science policy makers, university administrators, research evaluators, bibliometricians as well as humanities scholars who seek expert knowledge in research evaluation in the humanities.