A public group for people interested in working through more humane indicators of excellence for the humanities and social sciences. For more about the project, please visit our website at humetricshss.org.
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Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS #hssvalues Workshop Twitter Archive in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThis spreadsheet captures all the tweets posted using the #hssvalues hashtag, which was used leading up to and for the Humane Metrics in Humanities and Social Science (HuMetricsHSS)’s Value of Values workshop held in East Lansing, Michigan, from 5-7 October 2017.
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoI’ve uploaded the readings we assigned HuMetricsHSS workshop participants to the Files section of this group.
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Use of Bibliometrics for Assessing Research: Possibilities, Limitations and Adverse Effects to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoStefanie Haustein and Vincent Larivière
Abstract Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are
all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: Generous Thinking: Introduction to
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoAuthor: Audrey Williams June
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic How might you employ/deploy the process & ideas of the first HuMetricsHSS event? in the discussion
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoAt the first HuMetricsHSS workshop, we asked participants how they might take the process and ideas generated there back into their own professional and institutional contexts. This thread is for feedback, ideas, and reporting back!