Integrating metrics to measure research performance in social sciences and humanities: The case of the Spanish CSIC
Integrating metrics to measure research performance in social sciences and humanities: The case of the Spanish CSIC
复制标题
整合指标来衡量社会科学和人文学科的研究绩效：西班牙 CSIC 的案例
DOI：
10.1093/reseval/rvw018
复制
发表时间：
2016
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
T. V. Leeuwen
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Adrián A. Díaz;M. Bordons;T. V. Leeuwen
社会科学和人文科学领域的知识传播具有一套分类的出版渠道和更普遍地使用当地语言的特点，因此国际书目数据库本身并不能提供实际的研究来源。本文旨在为从微观层面全面研究SSH CSIC研究人员的研究绩效奠定基础。WOS和CSIC内部数据库(‘Conciencia’)与一套描述研究人员活动概况和出版渠道声望的指标结合使用。考察了这两个领域研究人员发表方式的差异，以及他们的研究绩效与其个人特征之间的关系。对于人文学科的研究人员来说，他们的学术等级和年龄越高，他们在书籍和非WOS文章中的活跃度就越高；而对于那些在社会科学领域工作的人来说，学术等级越高并不预示着研究人员的科学活动更有可能是国家范围的还是国际范围的。最后，提出了一系列建议，以超越WOS文章的界限，制定更准确的指标来评估出版物渠道的威望。
Knowledge dissemination in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) is characterized by an assorted set of publication channels and a more prevalent use of local languages, so international bibliographic databases do not provide a practical study source by themselves. This paper aims at laying the foundations for a comprehensive study of the research performance of SSH CSIC researchers from a micro-level perspective. Both the WoS and an internal CSIC database (‘ConCiencia’) are used in combination with a set of indicators describing the activity profile of researchers and the prestige of publication channels. Differences between the publication patterns of researchers in both domains are examined and so is the relationship between their research performance and their personal features. For researchers in humanities, the higher their academic rank and age the greater their activity in books and non-WoS articles was found to be; whereas for those working in the social sciences fields, a higher academic rank does not prefigure whether a researcher’s scientific activity is more likely to be national or international in scope. Finally, a series of recommendations to consider output beyond the boundaries of WoS articles, and develop more accurate indicators for assessing the prestige of publications channels is expounded.