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View article: How do referees integrate evaluation criteria into their overall judgment? Evidence from grant peer review
How do referees integrate evaluation criteria into their overall judgment? Evidence from grant peer review Open
Little is known whether peer reviewers use the same evaluation criteria and how they integrate the criteria into their overall judgment. This study therefore proposed two assessment styles based on theoretical perspectives and normative po…
View article: How do referees integrate evaluation criteria into their overall judgment? Evidence from grant peer review
How do referees integrate evaluation criteria into their overall judgment? Evidence from grant peer review Open
Little is known whether peer reviewers use the same evaluation criteria and how they integrate the criteria into their overall judgment. This study therefore proposed two assessment styles based on theoretical perspectives and normative po…
View article: Towards theorizing peer review
Towards theorizing peer review Open
Academic peer review is seriously undertheorized because peer review studies focus on discovering and confirming phenomena, such as biases, and are much less concerned with explaining, predicting, or controlling phenomena on a theoretical …
View article: Towards Theorizing Peer Review
Towards Theorizing Peer Review Open
Despite more than 50 years of research, academic peer review and its contexts remain seriously undertheorized. Studies on peer review focus on discovering and confirming phenomena, such as biases, and are much less concerned with explainin…
View article: Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications?
Do peers share the same criteria for assessing grant applications? Open
This study examines a basic assumption of peer review, namely, the idea that there is a consensus on evaluation criteria among peers, which is a necessary condition for the reliability of peer judgements. Empirical evidence indicating that…
View article: Bibliometrics-based heuristics: What is their definition and how can they be studied? - Research note
Bibliometrics-based heuristics: What is their definition and how can they be studied? - Research note Open
When scientists study the phenomena they are interested in, they apply sound methods and base their work on theoretical considerations. In contrast, when the fruits of their research are being evaluated, basic scientific standards do not s…
View article: Overview of Peer Review Practices in the SSH.
Overview of Peer Review Practices in the SSH. Open
Peer review is an important method of research evaluation, and it seems that the only adequate way to evaluate SSH research involves some form of peer review. Even if bibliometrics and other quantitative ways of evaluation may provide info…
View article: Criteria for assessing grant applications: A systematic review
Criteria for assessing grant applications: A systematic review Open
Criteria are an essential component of any procedure for assessing merit. Yet, little is known about the criteria peers use to assess grant applications. In this systematic review we therefore identify and synthesize studies that examine g…
View article: Bibliometrics-based heuristics: What is their definition and how can they be studied?
Bibliometrics-based heuristics: What is their definition and how can they be studied? Open
When scientists study the phenomena they are interested in, they apply sound methods and base their work on theoretical considerations. In contrast, when the fruits of their research is being evaluated, basic scientific standards do not se…
View article: The concordance of field-normalized scores based on Web of Science and Microsoft Academic data: A case study in computer sciences
The concordance of field-normalized scores based on Web of Science and Microsoft Academic data: A case study in computer sciences Open
In order to assess Microsoft Academic as a useful data source for evaluative bibliometrics it is crucial to know, if citation counts from Microsoft Academic could be used in common normalization procedures and whether the normalized scores…
View article: Assessment Criteria for Early Career Researcher's Proposals in the Humanities
Assessment Criteria for Early Career Researcher's Proposals in the Humanities Open
Competitive research grants become more and more important in the careers of young scholars. If grants are making careers, the decision for the grant winners is important and needs to be fair, consistent and transparent. In this research i…
View article: Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower
Microsoft Academic is on the verge of becoming a bibliometric superpower Open
Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science. While there are reservations about …
View article: The future of research assessment in the humanities: bottom-up assessment procedures
The future of research assessment in the humanities: bottom-up assessment procedures Open
Research assessment in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) is delicate. Assessment procedures meet strong criticisms from SSH scholars and bibliometric research shows that the methods that are usually applied are ill-adapted to SSH re…
View article: Humanities Scholars’ Conceptions of Research Quality
Humanities Scholars’ Conceptions of Research Quality Open
The assessment of research performance in the humanities is linked to the question of what humanities scholars perceive as 'good research'. Even though scholars themselves evaluate research on a daily basis, e.g. while reading other schola…
View article: Research Assessment in the Humanities: Introduction
Research Assessment in the Humanities: Introduction Open
Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for research performance meet strong opposition i…
View article: Quality criteria for sociology? What sociologists can learn from the project «developing and testing research quality criteria in the humanities»
Quality criteria for sociology? What sociologists can learn from the project «developing and testing research quality criteria in the humanities» Open
Universities take an important role in the knowledge-society.For reasons of accountability to the public or in order to assure or enhance research quality, many universities implemented assessment procedures, often using bibliometric and o…