research evaluation

A Case Study of Pluralism in Economics: The Heterodox Glass Ceiling in Italy

Quantitative measures of supposed scientific ‘quality’ (or ‘impact’) based on bibliometric indicators are used as the primary or exclusive tools of research evaluation in a growing number of countries. The negative impact of this method of evaluation on pluralism in economic teaching and research has been documented in Italy, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. We provide new evidence for Italy by investigating the CVs and publications of all candidates for the ‘national scientific qualification’, which is needed to access all tenured Italian academic positions.

Diversity of backgrounds and ideas: The case of research evaluation in economics

This paper contributes to the literature on the effect of research evaluation in terms of preserving and reproducing diversity. Through a large-scale natural experiment encompassing two entire cohorts of Italian economists, we document how candidates for academic positions, especially top-tier positions, in economics are pushed to increasingly conform to a standardised research profile.

Democratizing the economics debate. Research evaluation and pluralism in economics

More than a decade since the global financial crisis, economics does not exhibit signs of significant change. Mainstream economists act on an idealized image of science, which includes the convergence of all perspectives into a single supposed scientific truth. Democratizing the Economics Debate shows that this idealized image both provides an inadequate description of what science should be and misrepresents the recent past and current state of economics.

The History of Economic Thought and Mainstream Economics: A Long-Term Analysis

The aim of our contribution is, overall, to shed some light on the increasing difficulties experienced by historians of economic thought in having their role recognised both in terms of research activity and in their contribution to economic debate. By contrast, we strongly believe that “economics without [the] history of economic thought is a body without soul” (Roncaglia, 2014, p. 8).

La valutazione delle riviste scientifiche nelle scienze umane e sociali

The paper discusses the criteria adopted from 2016 by the ANVUR – the
Italian Agency for the evaluation of the Universities and of the scientific
research – in order to classify the scientific journals in the SSH fields, in which
bibliometric indicators are not used. In particular, the paper analyzes the
decision to create a class of excellence for journals and to assess the quality of
articles, and of journals, using the VQR scores. Besides, the paper addresses
problems connected to the peer-review, the methodology proposed by ANVUR

Ethical Theories in Research Evaluation. An Exploratory Approach

Research evaluation encompasses the practices of assessing research quality and impact at various stages of research. The processes and criteria of research evaluation vary depending on the nature and objectives of the assessment. Different research evaluation systems influence the research strategies of universities and institutes. There are, however, some known issues of research evaluation with regards to the peer review and, most prominently, the use of citation-based metrics, which lead to recent calls for responsible use of metrics.

Validità e limiti della library catalog analysis per la valutazione della ricerca nelle scienze umane e sociali

Dopo una breve analisi delle potenzialità e dei limiti dell’analisi citazionale come strumento per la valutazione della ricerca scientifica in tutti i campi, e in modo specifico nel settore delle scienze umane e sociali, nel saggio viene esaminata la proposta avanzata da alcuni autori – Adrianus J. M. Linmans, Howard D. White e Daniel Torres-Salinas insieme a Henk F. Moed – di utilizzare il rilevamento del numero delle presenze delle monografie nelle raccolte bibliotecarie come indice di qualità scientifica dei lavori degli autori sottoposti a valutazione.

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