A Review of Literature on Evaluating the Scientific, Social and Political Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities Research
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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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Citations may be appropriate for assessing scientific impact of research, but they do not show impact outside the scientific community.
“Citations may be appropriate in assessing the scientific impact of the research, but they do not show the impact of the research outside the scientific community [1,3,5,6,260,264,265].”
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Publication data and citation metrics continue to play the most important role in research assessments worldwide, so indicator-based research assessments remain at the center of global debate about their validity and influence.
“because publication data and citation metrics continue to play the most important role in research assessments worldwide, indicator-based research assessments also remain at the center of the global debate, not only about their validity, but also about their influence on research activities, scientific output, and its quality [1,5-7,44,260,265,289].”
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These studies are often targeted at general public and published in national language, which narrows potential audience and reduces likelihood of citation.
“These studies are also often targeted at the general public and, therefore, are often published in the national language, which narrows the size of potential audience and, consequently, reduces the likelihood of citation [87,96,260,265,294].”
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- Reale, E., Avramov, D., Canhial, K., Donovan, C., Flecha, R., Holm, P., Larkin, C., Lepori, B., Mosoni-Fried, J., Oliver, E., Primeri, E., Puigvert, L., Scharnhorst, A., Schubert, A., Soler, M., Soòs, S., Sordé, T., Travis, C., & Van Horik, R.
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- Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth (IT)
- Population and Social Policy Consultants (BE)
- Università della Svizzera italiana (CH)
- Brunel University of London (GB)
- University of Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, Barcelona, Spain
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU)
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UK
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NL)
- Department of Science Policy and Scientometrics, Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KIK-TTO), Arany János u. 1, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (DANS-KNAW), Anna van Saksenlaan 51, 2593 HW Den Haag, The Netherlands
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- Reale, Emanuela
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- Licence
- Locations
- Research Evaluation (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- KNAW research portal (Royal Academy of Art and Sciences (KNAW)) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich) (acceptedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (acceptedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) (submittedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2014-2017, 613202)
- IMPACT-EV Evaluating the Impact and Outcomes of European SSH Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Research, Science, and Academia
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Keywords
- research impact assessment, humanities and social sciences, scientific impact, social impact, political influence, European Union projects, science policy
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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