The Evaluation of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities

Professor Bonaccorsi is an applied economist with a strong record of publications in the fields of economics of science, higher education, and quantitative research evaluation. He has pioneered the field of microdata on European higher education institutions (HEIs), started with the Aquameth and Eumida projects and culminated in the ETER platform, supported by Eurostat and DG EAC for the disaggregated analysis of individual HEIs in Europe.He has been member of the RISE expert group, the leading group of economists supporting the European Commissioner for Research. He has been member of the Board of ANVUR in the period 2011-2015.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Towards an Epistemic Theory of Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities; Andrea Bonaccorsi.- Part I. Research Quality Criteria in SSH.- Chapter 2. Peer Review in Social Sciences and Humanities: Addressing the Interpretation of Quality Criteria; Andrea Bonaccorsi.- Chapter 3. Guidelines for Peer Review: A Survey of International Practices; Andrea Capaccioni and Gianna Spina.- Chapter 4. Individual and Department Level Indicators of Scientific Productivity: A Multisource Analysis; Chiara Faggiolani.- Chapter 5. Research Quality Criteria: The Case of Legal Studies; Sebastiano Faro, Ginevra Peruginelli.- Part II. The Role of Books and Monographs in Social Siences Research and Their Evaluation.- Chapter 6. Quality Evaluation of Online Library Catalogs, of Advanced Discovery Tools and of Liked Data Technologies; Maria Teresa Biagetti, Antonella Iacono, Antonella Trombone.- Chapter 7. Research Quality Criteria in the Evaluation of Books; Carla Basili, Luca Lanzillo.- Chapter 8. The Evolving Role of Books in Research Practices of Humanities; Tiziana Lippiello, Ioana Galleron, Geoffrey Williams.- Chapter 9. Research Quality Criteria in the Evaluation of Legal Research Monographs; Sebastiano Faro and Ginevra Peruginelli.- Part III. Journal Classification and Rating.- Chapter 10. Validity and Robustness of Journal Rating; Andrea Bonaccorsi, Tindaro Cicero, Antonio Ferrara and Marco Malgarini.- Chapter 11. Strategies for Publication in International Journals in SSH; Domenica Stella Iezzi.- Chapter 12. The Role of Scientific Societies of Journal Rating: the Case of Humanities; Andrea Bonaccorsi and Antonio Ferrara.- Part IV. Exploring New Indicators for the Multilevel Assessment of Research.- Chapter 13. Exploring the Potential of Indicators Based on Google Scholar; Alfio Ferrara and Silvia Salini.- Chapter 14. Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Google Scholars Indicators: the Case of Social Sciences in Italy; Ferruccio Biolcati-Rinaldi and Silvia Salini.- Chapter 15. Are Digital Library Catalgs a Reliable Source in Research Assessment?; Maria Teresa Biagetti, Antonella Iacono and Antonella Trombone.- Chapter 16. Do Scholar in Social Sciences and Humanities Contribute to the Third Mission of Universities?: Evidence from an Assessment Exercise; Brigida Blasi, Sandra Romagnosi and Andrea Bonaccorsi.- Chapter 17. The Impact of Research in SSH; Luca Lanzillo.- Part V. What Do We Learn from the Italian Experience?.- Chapter 18. The International Debate on the Evaluation of SSH and the Italian Experience; Alesia Zuccalà.