An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan
Scholarly books, or scholarly monographs, are an important form of research output in humanities and social sciences. However, the current research evaluation practices in Taiwan highly emphasize journal articles and have thereby suppressed the production of scholarly books. This study employed in-d...
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2017-07-01
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| description | Scholarly books, or scholarly monographs, are an important form of research output in humanities and social sciences. However, the current research evaluation practices in Taiwan highly emphasize journal articles and have thereby suppressed the production of scholarly books. This study employed in-depth interviews with 14 Taiwanese sociologists who had written and published scholarly books to understand the problems and challenges facing scholarly monograph production in the contemporary research evaluation culture. Interview topics included the values and contributions of scholarly books to the studies of sociology, the negative influences of journal-focused research evaluations on the sociology discipline, problems and challenges facing book-writing sociologists, and possible solutions to those problems. Based on the findings, the authors discuss on the proposed research review approach that monitors an author’s book-writing progress rather than focusing on the end-product, as raised in the interviews, as well as the problems and reliability issues with the pre-publishing anonymous review requirement that has become a mandate for scholarly book publishing in Taiwan. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0d204ad5b0246aa9f0a139b36de1a8a2023-09-02T06:59:52ZengTamkang University PressJiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué1013-090X1013-090X2017-07-0154213516010.6120/JoEMLS.2017.542/0007.RS.BMAn Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in TaiwanTien-Hsin ChangChi-Shiou LinScholarly books, or scholarly monographs, are an important form of research output in humanities and social sciences. However, the current research evaluation practices in Taiwan highly emphasize journal articles and have thereby suppressed the production of scholarly books. This study employed in-depth interviews with 14 Taiwanese sociologists who had written and published scholarly books to understand the problems and challenges facing scholarly monograph production in the contemporary research evaluation culture. Interview topics included the values and contributions of scholarly books to the studies of sociology, the negative influences of journal-focused research evaluations on the sociology discipline, problems and challenges facing book-writing sociologists, and possible solutions to those problems. Based on the findings, the authors discuss on the proposed research review approach that monitors an author’s book-writing progress rather than focusing on the end-product, as raised in the interviews, as well as the problems and reliability issues with the pre-publishing anonymous review requirement that has become a mandate for scholarly book publishing in Taiwan.http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/fulltext/54/54-2/135-160.pdfResearch evaluationScholarly monographsScholarly writing and publishingSociology in Taiwan |
| spellingShingle | Tien-Hsin Chang Chi-Shiou Lin An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué Research evaluation Scholarly monographs Scholarly writing and publishing Sociology in Taiwan |
| title | An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan |
| title_full | An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan |
| title_fullStr | An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan |
| title_short | An Unfair Game: The Dilemmas Posed by Academic Research Evaluation to Sociological Book Writing in Taiwan |
| title_sort | unfair game the dilemmas posed by academic research evaluation to sociological book writing in taiwan |
| topic | Research evaluation Scholarly monographs Scholarly writing and publishing Sociology in Taiwan |
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