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.
J. Britt Holbrook deposited Incorporating Societal Impact into Academic Research in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThe 2018 International Research Conference at UC Davis focuses on:
Changing political environment and its impact on international research
Increasing importance of networks and consortia in advancing international research
Role of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research in solving global challenges
Educating the next…[Read more]J. Britt Holbrook deposited Ecce Homo Academicus — The revaluation of higher education values in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoEvaluation can be seen as an opportunity for transvaluation, or what Nietzsche called the revaluation of values. However, evaluation is often treated instead as the enforcement of standards – standardization rather than transformation. When evaluation as transvaluation and evaluation as standardization are both used to evaluate the same s…[Read more]
Cameron Neylon deposited Getting the best out of data for open access monograph presses: A case study of UCL Press in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThis study of UCL Press sought to identify the extent to which data available to Open Access (OA) monograph presses can be combined with low-cost analysis tools to provide insight into development and strategy. An additional goal was identifying practical steps that monograph publishers can take to ensure that they make the most of the data they…[Read more]
Rebecca Kennison deposited Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThe spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. As a result of the lim…[Read more]
Ali Kılıçoglu deposited Qualitative Research for Educational Science Researchers: A Review of An Introduction to Qualitative Research in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 5 months agoQualitative research is a type of scientific research which includes document analysis, observation or interview. Qualitative research process describes the events in the natural environment realistically and holistically. Although quantitative research methods are mostly used in educational sciences, qualitative research methods are also used by…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited HuMetricsHSS #hssvalues Workshop Twitter Archive in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 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.
Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 3 weeks 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
the light of limited resources and increased bureaucratization of science, peer review is…[Read more] -
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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 11 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 3 weeks 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!
