Statement: Evaluating the Social Sciences and Humanities in Context – a Discussion Paper
Przegląd Prawa Konstytucyjnego, vol. 2020, pp. 153–175
Abstract
The text presents the course and conclusions of the discussion on evaluation of research in social sciences and humanities. The results of social sciences and humanities research can, on the one hand, be of significant local importance, and, on the other, require an appropriate international context. These conflicting trends are difficult to balance. A further difficulty is the attempt to reduce the evaluation of research results in social sciences and humanities to the effects of publication in ranking journals. This trend gives rise to many pathological phenomena (related, for example, to the increase in the cost of publication in journals and other ranked publications). The dominance of the ranking system of journals within the framework of financing scientific disciplines has negative impacts on aspects of academic activity beyond the publication of research results. Teaching activities and university relations with the wider world may suffer. In the course of the discussion an attempt is made to respond to these threats.
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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Vrije Universiteit
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Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
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Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir
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University of Aalborg
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Ismael Ràfols Aachen
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Leiden University
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Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
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Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation
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University of Silesia in Katowice
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Uniwersytet Śląski
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