Some Characteristics of Research Evaluations for Humanity and Social Science Researchers

This article attempts to investigate the characteristics of research evaluations for social science and humanity researchers. A successful research evaluation should include all the publication media used by their researchers. In social science and humanity studies, articles and books are the two mo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mu-Hsuan Huang, Yu-Wei Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Taiwan University 2005-03-01
Series:Journal of Library and Information Studies
Subjects:
Online Access:https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j24-1.pdf
Description
Summary:This article attempts to investigate the characteristics of research evaluations for social science and humanity researchers. A successful research evaluation should include all the publication media used by their researchers. In social science and humanity studies, articles and books are the two most commonly used scientific publication media, but several other publication media play an important role in some disciplines too. In additions, books always receive high citation rate. Also, social science and humanity researches deal with local and regional problems more often and cite earlier articles than are in sciences. Thus, any evaluation that covered only articles or books would probably be incomplete to varying degrees. A window of longer years for evaluation would be more appropriate for social science and humanity researchers. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)
ISSN:1606-7509
1606-7509