A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social and political impact of social sciences and humanities research

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作者
Reale, Emanuela [1 ]
Avramov, Dragana [2 ]
Canhial, Kubra [3 ]
Donovan, Claire [4 ]
Flecha, Ramon [5 ]
Holm, Poul [6 ]
Larkin, Charles [6 ]
Lepori, Benedetto [3 ]
Mosoni-Fried, Judith [7 ]
Oliver, Esther [4 ]
Primeri, Emilia [1 ]
Puigvert, Lidia [4 ]
Scharnhorst, Andrea [8 ]
Schubert, Andras [7 ]
Soler, Marta [4 ]
Soos, Sandor [7 ]
Sorde, Teresa [9 ]
Travis, Charles [5 ]
Van Horik, Rene [8 ]
机构
[1] Res Inst Sustainable Econ Growth CNR IRCRES, Via Taurini 19, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[2] PSPC, Maria Louizasquare 33-B1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
[3] Univ Svizzera Italiana, Fac Commun Sci, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, CH-6904 Lugano, Switzerland
[4] Brunel Univ London, Coll Hlth & Life Sci, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middx, England
[5] Univ Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585, E-08007 Barcelona, Spain
[6] Trinity Coll Dublin, Sch Hist & Humanities, Dublin 2, Ireland
[7] Hungarian Acad Sci MTA KIK TTO, Dept Sci Policy & Scientometr, Lib & Informat Ctr, Arany Janos U 1, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary
[8] Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci DANS KNAW, Data Archiving & Networked Serv, Anna van Saksenlaan 51, NL-2593 HW The Hague, Netherlands
[9] Autonomous Univ Barcelona, Campus UAB,Placa Civ S-N, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
关键词
social sciences; humanities; impact assessment; evaluation; ARTS-AND-HUMANITIES; PRODUCTIVE INTERACTIONS; SOCIETAL IMPACT; PAYBACK FRAMEWORK; ASSESSING POLICY; CITATION-INDEX; KNOWLEDGE; PERFORMANCE; INDICATORS; ALTMETRICS;
D O I
10.1093/reseval/rvx025
中图分类号
G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];
学科分类号
1205 ; 120501 ;
摘要
Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the existing scientific knowledge on evaluation tools and techniques that are applied to assess the scientific impact of SSH research; the changing structure of social and political impacts of SSH research is investigated based on an overarching research question: to what extent do scholars attempt to apply methods, instruments, and approaches that take into account the distinctive features of SSH? The review also includes examples of European Union (EU) projects that demonstrate these impacts. This article culminates in a discussion of the development of the assessment of different impacts and identifies limitations, and areas and topics to explore in the future.
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页码:298 / 308
页数:11
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