Research Assessment in the Humanities

1. Research Assessment in the Humanities: Introduction
Michael Ochsner, Sven E. Hug, Hans-Dieter Daniel

Part I. Setting Sail into Stormy Waters

2. The ‘Mesurer les Performances de la Recherche’ Project of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) and Its Further Development
Antonio Loprieno, Raymond Werlen, Alexander Hasgall, Jaromir Bregy

3. Yes We Should; Research Assessment in the Humanities
Wiljan Akker

4. How Quality Is Recognized by Peer Review Panels: The Case of the Humanities
Michèle Lamont, Joshua Guetzkow

5. Humanities Scholars’ Conceptions of Research Quality
Michael Ochsner, Sven E. Hug, Hans-Dieter Daniel

Part II. The Current State of Quality-Based Publication Rankings and Publication Databases

6. The ESF Scoping Project ‘Towards a Bibliometric Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities’
Gerhard Lauer

7. Publication-Based Funding: The Norwegian Model
Gunnar Sivertsen

8. Assessment of Journal & Book Publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Spain
Elea Giménez Toledo

9. European Educational Research Quality Indicators (EERQI): An Experiment
Ingrid Gogolin

Part III. Bibliometrics in the Humanities

10. Beyond Coverage: Toward a Bibliometrics for the Humanities
Björn Hammarfelt

11. Quotation Statistics and Culture inLiterature and inOther Humanist Disciplines
Remigius Bunia

Part IV. Evaluation of Research in the Humanities in Practice

12. Peer Review in the Social Sciences andHumanities at the European Level: TheExperiences of the European Research Council
Thomas König

13. The Four ‘I’s: Quality Indicators for the Humanities
Wilhelm Krull, Antje Tepperwien

14. Bottom Up from the Bottom: A New Outlook on Research Evaluation for the SSH in France
Geoffrey Williams, Ioana Galleron

Part V. The ‘Forschungsrating’ of the German Council of Science and Humanities. Risks and Opportunities for the Humanities: The Case of the Anglistik/Amerikanistik Pilot Study

15. Rating Research Performance in the Humanities: An Interim Report on an Initiative of the German Wissenschaftsrat

Christian Mair

16. ‘21 Grams’: Interdisciplinarity and the Assessment of Quality in the Humanities
Klaus Stierstorfer, Peter Schneck

17. Research Rating Anglistik/Amerikanistik of the German Council of Science and Humanities
Alfred Hornung, Veronika Khlavna, Barbara Korte

18. Research Assessment in a Philological Discipline: Criteria and Rater Reliability
Ingo Plag

Keywords: Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Higher Education, Ethics, Public Administration